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At nine years old, Lance Houston was taken
and placed inside the Alien Protection & Penalty Center.
The A.P.P.C. calls it containment.
They promise safety, care, rehabilitation.
Behind reinforced glass and constant surveillance, aliens live structured lives monitored by unseen enforcers. No contact. No trust. No names that matter.
Lance is different.
Known in classified files only as Kel-X, his species is redacted even from himself. Isolated from other detainees, watched more closely than most, he possesses an adaptive shapeshifting ability the A.P.P.C. doesn't fully understand-and may never control.
At fifteen, after years of rejection, Lance is finally assigned an enforcer: Dr. Isla Rosely, a disgraced professor recruited into a system she doesn't fully believe in. Through cold monitors and guarded conversations, an unexpected bond forms-one that begins to fracture the rules meant to keep them apart.
As underground operations intensify and a brutal rogue faction known as the Solarblights wages a hidden war against both humans and alien life alike, Lance becomes more than a subject of observation.
He becomes a variable.
Caught between a facility that wants to shape him into a weapon and a universe that may have been built to erase him, Lance must decide who he is-before others decide what he's meant to destroy.
Lance Within a Chance is a supernatural sci-fi thriller about identity, control, and what it means to grow up under surveillance-where survival isn't about power, but choice.