Come Home, to where the Darkest Burning Pyre resides. Come Home, to where the Pyre’s blaze guts the Abusers. Come Home, to where the Pyre incinerates what remains. Come Home, to where you belong. The year is 2035. It has been roughly two years since the Advent Virus infected every human on Earth. Most are asymptomatic carriers—they display no symptoms and are unhurt by the virus. Variants, on the other hand, are genetically enhanced by the virus and given almost supernatural abilities, previously considered to be only possible in comic books or cartoons. Meanwhile, a large minority of the world's population is ruthlessly killed by the virus, falling into comas and passing away. Alex Westsmith was abused as a child, alongside his younger brother, and his mother, at the hands of his father. The legal system failed Alex and his family, over and over, again and again. So, the teenager, armed with his Variant abilities, does what he must, scouring the city by night, hunting and killing those who abuse others. As the vigilante Pyre, alongside his best friend and computer hacker, Richard Caperno—who operates under the alias Reforger—Alex fights for those who would otherwise fall through the cracks of society. But when a ruthless new faction of radicals and terrorists abducts one of their classmates, will the Variant vigilante and his hacker ally be able to save her? Or will he have to helplessly watch abuse go unpunished yet again?

When the second Amendment was abolished, two scientists joined together to fight against tyranny. However, One Biochemical engineer who desires to dominate the world takes over his right mind, sending him into a downward spiral. Creating a virus that will turn the politest person into a bloodthirsty killer, while his Geneticist partner was trying to prepare the people for extinction with his own unique serum. But a young teen is caught in their entanglement while the world is sent into a chaos that no one could prepare for. Will the earth burn or will something or someone intervene?

Following the Great Economic Collapse the future looked bleak. Escalating crime, homelessness, poverty, and fear ravage the country. A new global depression has devastated every industrialized nation, leaving the entire planet crippled. This is the world John Cohen and his friends Carmen and Nosmo knew until the night of October 28, 2026. In a flash of strange emerald light the three friends are dragged into a world of powerful beings, known as the Variants. Teamed with a homeless assassin and a forgetful immortal, they soon find themselves involved in a brave new world of strange abilities, monsters, and aliens. As they try to adjust to this new life something else is stirring in the darkness. And the fate of everything hangs in the balance

This solid introduction uses the principles of physics and the tools of mathematics to approach fundamental questions of neuroscience.

WHILE HYDE hunts for a Variant-enhanced serial killer, a fight with a skin-eating granny almost sends Borland back into retirement. Skin eaters, secrets, and murder close in as the squad scrambles to contain the Variant Effect. VARION was a popular medication that could cure anything from Anxiety and Depression to Schizophrenia and Zoophagia. Everybody took it back in the day, because there were no side effects ... AT FIRST. By the time they learned about the Variant Effect it was too late. It’s been twenty years since Borland battled the Variant Effect, and twenty since he let his partner get skinned alive. Now they have been ordered back into action to meet a terrifying new threat.