A Road Called Home

In a crumbling world where factories choke the sky and the government dictates what’s real, four friends who grew up in the same small town cling to a single shared relic of their youth: The Garden —a place that no longer exists, paved over by industry and left to rot.

Vera Rycke, once a promising journalist, now lives in hiding after her underground writings against the regime are exposed. Her closest ally is Ezra, the sharp-minded twin whose scientific genius has been swallowed by a secret project with consequences too dangerous to undo. His brother Avery, the gentle artist turned reluctant soldier, sends Vera letters from the frontlines—letters that fan the flames of rebellion until they brand him a traitor. And Mae, Vera’s cousin and Avery’s first love, strays deep into the orbit of the elite… and into a hunger she cannot control.

The deeper they are pulled into the gears of war, greed, and power, the more the lines between loyalty and survival blur. Among the smoke-filled rooms of the elite, the dinners where the main course is human flesh, and the factories that rise over the bones of their past, betrayal takes root.

Not all of them will make it back to The Garden. And for those who do, the road home may be the most dangerous of all.