Moore's Unread Ink™

Some secrets live in the basement. Some live in the blood. Eleven-year-old Nico Moore always knew his parents were hiding something. He felt it in his father’s double-checked locks, saw it in his mother’s tired eyes, and sensed it in the strange pressure that settled in his chest whenever an adult lied. He thought it was just the weight of growing up. He was wrong. When strangers in dark coats arrive at his door, speaking in coded, Nico’s world shatters. His parents aren’t just overprotective—they’re highly trained operatives who’ve spent a decade hiding inside PROJECT BLACKHAWK. BLACKHAWK doesn’t want weapons; they want vessels. They’ve discovered the only way to send a hostile artificial intelligence into a human mind is to use a child’s consciousness to carry it. Most subjects don't survive. Some return as something else entirely. And Nico is their perfect match. With his father vanished and his mother preparing for a war she can’t win, Nico is left with a key to a hidden room beneath his house. To survive, Nico must navigate a terrifying conspiracy of consciousness-entry trials, government black sites, and the horrifying truth about his own mind. Because the people hunting him aren’t just trying to take his life. They’re trying to take his soul.