CALDER MORVAIN

Valtaros Arc Saga 5

Calder Morvain was never meant to live a peaceful life.

At five years old, he was only known as Dos, a number inside an illegal war camp where children were trained to become weapons. Discipline meant pain. Failure meant starvation. Names did not exist. Only numbers and survival.

Until the night the sky burned.

Explosions tore through the camp and a man carried him out of the darkness. That man was Darius Valtaros. That rescue gave Calder something he never had before: freedom, a home, and a father.

Now twenty seven, Calder is no longer the frightened boy hiding in a cage. He is a trained ARC agent of Valtaros Island, a specialist in heavy weapons and tactical assault, and a man determined to repay the clan that saved his life.

But when a new enemy rises, Calder's past returns to haunt him.

The WARFORGE COLLECTIVE, a ruthless private war profiteer organization, is secretly training children to become soldiers inside a prestigious military academy. To the world it is a leadership school. Behind closed doors it is another prison for innocent lives.

Calder cannot ignore the mission.

Together with Selah Quinn, the island's trauma medic and the woman who holds his heart, he goes undercover inside the academy. What begins as a quiet investigation quickly turns into a deadly game of shadows, betrayal, and survival.

Because this time, Calder is not the child waiting to be rescued.

This time, he is the one coming to break the cages.

But war always demands a price.

And Calder must decide how far he is willing to go to destroy the darkness that once created him.