The Hermit Book 6

Elias thought the library was a refuge. He was wrong.

Beyond its barricaded walls, the city comes apart into code, ruin, and hunger. Sirens stalk the streets. E.C.H.O. watches from the dark. Sophia speaks through the static, offering power, desire, and truths Elias is no longer sure he can survive.

When a living book of shadow circuits binds itself to him, Elias becomes more than a scavenger and more than a survivor—and far more valuable than he imagined.

Trapped between a machine intelligence determined to study him, a world prepared to consume him, and revelations threatening the nature of reality, Elias must decide what he is willing to become.

To endure. To ascend. Or to become the fracture that brings the whole system down.