The Riftborn Chronicles

What if the mark on your skin was the key to saving—or destroying—humanity? Jace Holloway has always dreamed of escaping the crumbling town of Verrick Falls. But when a mysterious blackout leads him and his conspiracy-theorist best friend into the forbidden woods, they stumble upon something that should not exist—a Rift Pulse, an interdimensional tear where reality frays and nightmares walk. What follows is an explosion of chaos: Jace is marked by a glowing sigil that alters his body, mind, and destiny. Machines begin hunting him.

The Rift has opened wider—and so has the truth. Sixteen-year-old Jace Holloway carries a mark not just on his skin, but deep within his DNA. Transformed by the mysterious Rift Pulse that destroyed his town, he is no longer just human—and no longer safe. As whispers echo in his mind and power pulses through his veins, Jace and the surviving Forsaken Order are hunted across a fractured America where physics breaks, nightmares walk, and the dead refuse to stay buried.

Backed into a corner. Hunted across ruined lands. The war for humanity is no longer a battle of survival—it’s a race against transformation. Ace Holloway never asked to become the Riftborn. But after the fall of Ark 7 and the loss of nearly everything he holds dear, he’s done running. With the Legion's mechanized forces pushing the planet to the brink, and twisted hybrids rising from the corpses of the captured, Jace and the remnants of the Forsaken Order must confront an impossible truth: hiding won't save them anymore.

The war for the future of humanity has reached its breaking point. Haunted by visions and driven by powers he barely understands, Jace Holloway leads the shattered remnants of the Forsaken Order across the desolate wastelands to the legendary buried city of Seraph’s End. Beneath the sand and crystal of the Dead Zone lies a forgotten civilization—the First Riftborn—whose ancient technology holds the key to salvation… or annihilation. But time is running out. The Nova Shard embedded in Jace’s body is fusing with his DNA, turning him into something no longer fully human.