You can’t escape what you’re destined to become.
Seventeen-year-old Leonardo travels to Kenya expecting nothing more than a break from his ordinary life. A safari. Endless horizons. The raw beauty of the savanna.
Then something finds him.
An impossible creature—massive, silent, its white-and-gold fur gleaming beneath the sun, its amber eyes burning with something ancient. The attack lasts only moments.
He survives.
But something inside him doesn’t.
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In the days that follow, reality begins to fracture.
Time disappears.
Memories don’t line up.
He wakes up in places he doesn’t remember reaching… with blood on his hands that isn’t his.
His body is changing.
Not all at once.
Not in ways he can control.
But enough to know that whatever touched him didn’t just try to kill him.
It marked him.
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And he’s not the only one who’s noticed.
Something is moving in the shadows.
A powerful organization known as ARGOS is searching for ancient relics—artifacts buried in places that were never meant to be disturbed. Sunken temples. Forgotten ruins. Lost fragments of a past that refuses to stay buried.
They don’t just study them.
They hunt them.
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Caught between a life he can no longer return to and a truth he doesn’t yet understand, Leonardo is forced into a world where survival is no longer enough.
Because the real danger isn’t what attacked him.
It’s what it left behind.
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And the question is no longer if he will change…
But what he will become when the change is complete.
