The world ended. After the fall of civilization, the Occult rose from the shadows. They created mutants—enhanced, altered, weaponized beings built to secure their control over humanity. But they didn’t account for one flaw. The mutant’s humanity. Mutants walk among the ruins—feared, hunted, engineered to be weapons for the secret order known only as the Occult. They were never meant to love. Never meant to choose. Never meant to survive long enough to feel. Humans call them monsters. Weapons. Abominations. Experiments gone wrong. In a world where mutants are taught not to love and humans are taught to fear them, their bond threatens more than just their lives. Zayn was engineered to destroy. Fire answers to him. Power bends toward him. Something ancient lives beneath his skin—something not entirely human. Alisha is everything he shouldn’t want. Alisha wasn’t supposed to survive him. Yet in a world divided by fear, where mutants are terrified of loving humans and humans are taught to fear what they don’t understand, something dangerous begins to grow— Unity. Because the truth is this: The monster isn’t always the one with claws. And sometimes the most terrifying creature in the room isn’t the one with glowing skin— Sometimes it’s the one hiding behind salvation. And when love becomes rebellion, even empires built on control can burn.