The Recruitment

Raiden knows the truth is always in the floors — the things people never bother to hide. Scraping by beside his father on move-out cleaning jobs, he's learned not to wonder and not to hope for much. Then something finds him, and the small, exhausting world he's always known cracks open to reveal a far larger one. The Recruitment is the propulsive opening of the Origin Trilogy — a grounded, emotionally raw science-fiction story about grief, class, and the terrifying moment you discover you were meant for more. Book One of the Origin Trilogy.