_RelleLebby_
They were told it was routine.
Seventeen teenagers from seven countries.
Different cities, different lives, one needle, administered in the kind of clean, credentialed clinic that governments endorsed and parents trusted.
They went home. They went to sleep. They woke up different.
Myra Sanches was never supposed to be at the center of anything. Seventeen, sharp-tongued, and quietly devastating to anyone who underestimated her, she had already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime when the wrong door opened, and she walked through it. What happened to her body after the injection was not a gift. It was not a blessing. It was evidence of a plan that predated her by more than a decade, of a corporation that decided what she was for before she was old enough to decide anything for herself, of a facility beneath a building that did not appear on any public record, where teenagers from six other countries were waiting. The lights were always on, and no one was coming.
No one, that is, except them.
The Onyx Project is a dark, character-driven sci-fi novel about identity, power, and what it means to be called a weapon when all you have ever wanted is to be a person. It does not flinch from its casualties. It does not promise that survival means safety. It is told across five parts, in a building with no windows, by people who found their way out of it anyway.
No one is coming to save them. So they will have to save themselves.
©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.