SEVEN SHOTS

Hope is fourteen when she pulls the trigger on her own father-and the world answers in a way no one warned her about.

In the smoke of a burning house, a stranger takes her hand and calls her "Seventh."

Jeannine is First: a woman from occupied France who learned that sometimes evil wears your father's face. Together, they walk through an empty gray Hell where pain doesn't end-it just changes shape. And they learn the rule:

When blood turns on blood, a weapon comes.

A Colt 1911 known in Hell as Cain. It appears where kin raise a hand against kin, and it never arrives alone. It brings seven stories-across countries, decades, and different kinds of betrayal-each one filling the magazine with another name... another soul... another bullet.

Because when the magazine is full, Cain can kill anyone.

Even what Hell is afraid to name.

This is a dark, mythic anthology stitched into one escalating arc: victims who become monsters, monsters who remember love, and the last question waiting at the end of the road-

If you had the power to punish the forces that built a world where love is treated like a sin... would you use it?

Content warnings: graphic violence, child abuse, sexual violence (referenced/on-page), domestic violence, suicide/self-harm, human trafficking, torture themes, religious trauma.