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Shadow Steel: A Gritty Sci-Fi Superhero Thriller (Book 1)

Shadow Steel: A Gritty Sci-Fi Superhero Thriller (Book 1)

Osaze, John

Paperback

Series: The Octahedrals, Book 1

Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction

ISBN13: 9798249924652
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a city built on the bones of industry, the rust is coming to life

Finch Wilson was just a weary mechanic in a dying Pittsburgh steel mill who talked to the metal. But after a desperate mission into the condemned tunnels of the Carrie Furnaces, the metal started talking back.

Pinned beneath a collapse and facing certain death, Finch is consumed by the Umbra Shard-a parasitic, iridescent black fluid that seeps into his skin and fuses with his skeleton. He emerges not as a man, but as Shadow Steel: a towering obsidian predator with the power to manipulate gravity and crush tank plating with a single blow.

But power comes with a devastating metabolic cost. The suit is a living organism that eats him alive, leaving him ravaged and starving after every transformation.

As the fanatical Jett Walker-the King of Rust-threatens to purge the weak of the world through a global resonance event at the Kinzua Dam, Finch must decide what he is willing to sacrifice. Hunted by H.A.L.O. (High-threat Anomaly Logistics & Oversight) and caught between a journalist who wants to make him a god and an engineer who wants to keep him human, Finch is the only shield standing between humanity and its own evolution.

He is not a hero. He is not a monster. He is the Shadow.

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