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Book One of the Mindforge Series
In the year 2065, America is no longer free.
The government has fractured into territories ruled by fear, rationing, surveillance, and one brutal televised spectacle: The Mindforge Trials.
Every year, Candidates are chosen to compete in a deadly series of physical and psychological tests broadcast across the nation for entertainment, profit, and control. Winners are promised power. Fame. A future as one of the elite Forged.
But Kaia knows better.
Her father entered the Trials years ago and never came home.
When her grandfather is taken by the Ministry, Kaia is forced into the very system her family spent years warning her about. To survive, she must endure the cameras, the sponsors, the bloodshed, and the terrifying arenas designed to break more than just her body.
Then there is Rowan - dangerous, unreadable, and always watching her a little too closely.
He saves her when he should not. Protects her when it costs him. Knows secrets about the Trials he refuses to explain. And the closer Kaia gets to him, the harder it becomes to tell whether he is her greatest chance at survival... or another lie dressed like rescue.
But Rowan is not the only boy haunting the Trials.
Gabe, the boy Kaia once loved in secret, has a last name she was never supposed to know.
Vale.
The name of the man who controls everything.
As the Trials tighten around her, Kaia begins to realize the game is not only testing her strength. It is digging through her memories. Twisting her fears. Exposing truths buried so deep they should have been impossible to find.
And in the Mindforge, survival is not the same as escape.
Because some cages do not have walls.
Some lies feel like love.
And some trials are designed to make you choose who you become before you ever learn who has been controlling the game.
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