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Cade: The Tortured Crossing
Paperback
Series: The Breeniverse
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two brothers encoded with cosmic purpose. One defined by systematic precision; the other fractured by overwhelming connection. Only together can they stop a synthetic void from consuming human consciousness.
When they were seven years old, twins Cade and Cale Altair were visited in the Nevada desert by a cosmic guardian entity known as Thgil. Chosen as programmable superhuman agents to counter a future threat, they were gifted with enhanced neural architecture and quantum-leaping physical prowess. But their integration diverged.
Cade evolved into a cold, systematic operative, executing cosmic justice with geometric efficiency. Cale shattered under the weight of universal awareness, turning to pharmaceutical modulation to manage his chaotic, overwhelming connection to the world's suffering.
Decades later, the threat they were encoded to destroy has arrived. A billionaire cyber-terrorist named Cuzzx has developed a distributed artificial intelligence network designed to eliminate organic free will and replace it with optimized, synthetic control.
As Cuzzx's network approaches global saturation, the estranged brothers are forced to reunite. To infiltrate the virtual architect's stronghold, Cade's rigid order and Cale's unpredictable chaos must synchronize into a perfect, complementary weapon. With the help of Alana, a civilian whose native compassion grounds them, the twins must face their deepest wounds.
Can the twisted pair transcend their differences to save human emergence, or will the sterile void absorb them both?
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