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Wrong Awakening

OhImissedSomething
Half the world dies in one night. No warning. No explanation. Just a rupture in reality that tears through the sky and leaves the living to drown in blood, panic, and things wearing human faces wrong. In the middle of that collapse is Isaac Wanless—eighteen, quiet, sharp-eyed, and the kind of boy people underestimate until it’s too late. He should have died with everyone else. Instead, something in him answers. As cities fall apart and survivors turn corrupted, Isaac is dragged into a nightmare far bigger than grief or survival: awakenings, impossible powers, living weapons hiding inside ordinary people, and two terrifying men who seem to know exactly what he is becoming before he does. Every loss pushes him closer to the edge. Every choice makes him more dangerous. And the more his power grows, the less certain he is that he’ll stay human when this is over. With the world breaking open, the dead piling higher, and enemies hunting him from both the streets and the shadows behind reality, Isaac has to decide what kind of force he’ll become. Because the end of the world didn’t just kill billions. It woke something up.
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