I Should Have Killed You: Part One
Paperback
Series: I Should Have Killed You, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The sky has been the wrong color for thirteen years.
Mercy survives because it adapts.
Beneath the ruins, Black Meridian has built something rare in a fractured world-structure, power, and the fragile beginnings of hope.
Rhea Vale never stays anywhere long enough to believe in hope.
She reads fault lines. She survives collapse. She leaves before fire spreads.
Cassian Mordane builds instead of runs.
When the Dust Choir-an ideological cult that believes progress must burn-escalates from symbolic war to blood, Mercy's expansion is buried in a calculated act of sabotage. Four die. The southern tunnel collapses. And survival is no longer enough.
The Speaker wanted irreversible.
He got it.
Now Rhea is done reacting.
Instead of striking territory, they will strike narrative.
Instead of burning the basin, they will walk into it.
Extraction, not annihilation.
If they succeed, the Choir fractures.
If they fail, Mercy falls.
In a world where growth is punished and devotion weaponized, the most dangerous act isn't revenge-
It's choosing to end the war.
A dark, character-driven post-apocalyptic romance about power, collapse, and the cost of rebuilding after ruin.
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