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Lead Casing: Book 1 of the Grounded Legion Series
Paperback
Series: Grounded Legion, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a near-future Canada strangled by values-based control, every breath is taxed, every bond audited, every feeling nudged toward compliance. Jan lives in the grey grid of Tyne Valley, her Value-Link ring tracking empathy that could kill her-if she ever unlocks the power buried inside.
Women were placed on Earth to shape humanity, but the key is love: happy marriage and children. Without grounding, empathy becomes suicidal flood. Husbands become handlers-stoic anchors preventing dissolution into zombie enforcers.
When her husband Sylis returns broken from re-education camp, Jan accidentally unfucks his mind. Power surges. The regime detects the anomaly. They flee into Quebec winter, finding Enoch's Stand-a hidden pocket of resistance where the antediluvian echo still hums.
What begins as survival becomes awakening. Grounded love repels engineered hate. Stoic logic dismantles nudge scripts. A Legion rises-boots on ground, rings crushed, marching toward the Ottawa Citadel.
In a world that weaponizes compassion, only real bonds can ground the flood.
GRITTY METAPHYSICAL FANTASY meets dystopian realism. For readers who want non-toxic masculinity, high-stakes bonds, and a manual for men disguised as epic.
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