Spectre's Pledge

Luis Terrance was never meant to be the hero of anything.

Third of five, and the only Terrance sibling without a single accomplishment to his name, Luis has spent twenty-one years perfecting the art of doing just enough to get by - while his family reshapes the world around him. A senator father. A merchant prodigy. A prodigy doctor. A championship archer. A historian who already knows more than most professors. And Luis, asleep by the window, content to let the world keep spinning without him.

Then the sky opens up, and it all comes apart.

Stranded alone on an island ruled by traffickers, cultists, and men who see human beings as product, Luis has nothing left but the clothes on his back, a dead phone, and the necklace his grandmother once swore had shown her a better life. He never believed her. He does now - because when the nightmares start, they don't feel like dreams. They feel like memories. Someone else's hands. Someone else's violence. Someone else's will to survive.

He has a family to find, a father worth a fortune in ransom, and siblings who are stronger, smarter, and more capable than he's ever been. What none of them know is what he's slowly becoming in the dark to bring them home - or the truth their mother has kept buried far longer than any of them could imagine.

The couch potato is gone. What's left is a pledge no one asked him to make, to people who don't even know he's making it.