Preorder *Signed* Aftershock Protocol Paperback

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**Releases October 1st**

Zero survived HVC. Unfortunately, HVC has always been very bad at accepting defeat.

Still House is supposed to be safer now. Not safe, because that would be adorable and wildly inaccurate, but safer. There are locks on the doors, heat in the rooms, people who knock before entering, and Colt sleeping close enough that Zero can pretend he doesn’t need the sound of his alpha breathing to keep the nightmares from climbing into bed with him.

It should be enough.

It isn’t.

When old HVC signals begin pulsing through the buried infrastructure beneath Still House, Zero’s body starts answering before his mind can refuse. His scent blanks. His heat cues fracture. His bond with Colt glitches hard enough to turn want into panic and safety into something that feels sickeningly close to command, because HVC didn’t just build protocols for captivity.

They built protocols for escape. They planned for survivors to find shelter, form bonds, trust, and love. Then they taught the old systems how to use that love against them.

Colt knows how to protect Zero from enemies with hands, weapons, and names, but this isn’t a man at the door. This is a signal under the floor. A ghost of HVC reaching through the bond Colt would burn the world to keep free, and when Graves arrives to track the dead pockets waking beneath Still House, he hears something worse than an old system coming back online.

He hears absence, silence moving, and proof that Zero may not be the only survivor HVC left buried in its infrastructure. However, before Still House can follow the sound in the walls, Zero and Colt have to survive what HVC left inside them, because the aftershock protocol is waking. Zero has never been good at staying quiet when something tries to own him.

Aftershock Protocol is a dark MM alpha/omega omegaverse novella set between Omega Protocol and Alpha Signal. It features post-captivity trauma recovery, corrupted heat cues, bond reclamation, Still House chaos, old HVC systems waking under the floor, Graves being quietly terrifying, explicit open-door intimacy between consenting adults, and one feral omega refusing to let the people who broke him have the last word.

HEA/HFN guaranteed.

The damage still bites, and so does Zero.