Four figures meet around a table in the void: an ideologue, a spiritual leader, a tech billionaire, and a king. They've spent decades corrupting a country. Their next move is buying the president.

Seth Rodgers doesn't know any of that. At fifty, he's broke, single, and creaking through a weekend at a lakeside cabin when a Fracture tears the world open over the water. He wakes up Surged: changed, powered, his broken body remade stronger than it's ever been. Three of his oldest friends wake up the same way.

Seth's gift is the strange one. He carves spells into metal and powers them with mana batteries. Engineered magic. A power no one else has, and no one quite knows what to do with.

He takes the name Mystech and joins an underfunded hero team in Charleston, a thin line against trafficking rings, corporate predators, and the people quietly buying the country out from under it.

He spent his first life being too small, too late, too tired. This time, he plans to be too clever instead.

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Mystech: Fracture, Book one of the Mystech trilogy now available!

Thirty-three years ago, the world tore open.

In 1992, a catastrophic nuclear fusion experiment cracked reality for a fraction of a second. Known as the Fracture, this event unleashed a volatile cosmic energy called the Surge, forever altering human history. Overnight, ordinary people transformed into godlike beings with elemental, physical, and reality-bending powers. While some rose as heroes to form the independent Heroic Defense Alliance (HDA), others seized absolute control over cities and states, fracturing the nation into a chaotic battlefield of super-powered warlords.

Seth Rodgers was just an eighteen-year-old infantryman when he was thrown into the meat grinder of the Fracture War, witnessing firsthand the terrifying futility of mortal weapons against unstoppable power. Now fifty, broke, and drifting through a fragile peace in South Carolina, Seth survives on a patchwork of low-paying jobs and the quiet camaraderie of his closest friends.

But the scars of reality never truly heal.

During a secluded weekend getaway with his inner circle, the unimaginable happens: a new Fracture detonates right before their eyes. Caught in the epicenter of the blast wave, Seth and his friends survive the impossible process, emerging from the debris with altered, super-powered physiques.

Thrust into the high-tech, high-stakes jurisdiction of the HDA for assessment, they discover they aren't the only ones watching. Dark political factions, corrupt corporate entities, and fanatical religious cults are mobilizing to exploit the new Surge. As his friends manifest world-class physical and hard-light abilities, Seth realizes his own power is a dangerous anomaly: the intuitive capability to forge high-tech machinery powered by pure, unadulterated magic.

To protect his city, Seth must step out of the shadows, don his runic armor, and learn to fight for what matters.