Splice: Ashes (Book One)

**When you've only lived other people's dreams, discovering your own feels like revolution.**

Leggy never wanted to be a hero.

Wearing a mask to hide his feline identity, he's spent years running from King Kuta's slavers-and from the wolf-brother who swore to hunt him down. But when a death race in the vertical ruins of the Buzzard Kingdom goes wrong, he crash-lands into Belle's world.

She's a mouse-hybrid tinkerer hunting for her missing father. He's a stray with secrets that could get them both killed. Together, they'll uncover an ancient conspiracy that reaches from the underground labs where hybrids are tortured, to the palace where a tyrant king plots to enslave every free soul left.

**But the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.**

Because Leggy isn't just another runaway. He's the last cat hybrid alive-and the key to a weapon that could either save their dying world or destroy what's left of it.

*Some masks hide your face. Others hide your destiny.*

**Epic fantasy meets Mad Max**
**Found family + when hunter falls for prey**
**Death races, underground rebellions, and lost technology**
**Trauma, healing, and the courage to trust again**

*First book in the Splice trilogy. Updates weekly.*