SPD Volume One: The Lodge Institute!

In the steel town's underbelly, where grudges outlive generations and family names outrank the law, tensions between the Johnston crime family and the rising Quinn syndicate are reaching breaking point. A simmering feud threatens to ignite an all-out war that could consume the town-and everyone trapped within it.

Jacky Wong, a quiet boy with a fallen martial-artist father, is caught between these forces. With no family left, he is taken in by Ricky Johnston, who promises protection and purpose. But when the Quinn-Johnston conflict escalates, Jacky becomes a liability. Ricky chooses business over loyalty and has Jacky dumped into The Lodge Institute-a violent lock-in school ruled not by teachers, but by Dylan Frew, a ruthless boy who governs through fear. Jacky is beaten, isolated, and forced to learn the Lodge's harsh truth: reputation is life, weakness is death.

But the Lodge is shifting.

Cameron Johnston, Ricky's estranged grandson, arrives as a political pawn-but refuses to be contained. With enforcer Kieran Feldmanis and hacker Cory-Jay Clubb, Cameron forms a crew with one goal: escape. As the Quinn-Johnston street war worsens outside, alliances splinter inside. The arrival of Maria Dalby-a polite girl shadowed by police and hiding a dangerous past-further disrupts the balance.

Beyond the Lodge, the world widens. Christopher Johnston, Cameron's father and exiled kingpin, resurfaces, Secrets from the Seishin temples emerge-ancient talismans tied to Jacky's father and capable of shifting global power.

On a field trip to Steel Towns Castle, Jacky and new friends Stephen, Callum, and Jay uncover clues linking the talismans to the town's past. Jacky faces a choice: honour the Seishin path and become a warrior-or embrace the escalating war around him.

As Cameron plots escape and Jacky fights to define his future, the steel town faces one question:

What happens when the children of criminals become more dangerous than the criminals themselves?