Maxed-Out Survival Before the Fall

Three hours before the apocalypse, Damon Burke is reborn and awakens the Emotion System. In his last life he was betrayed, murdered, and devoured by his fiancee and a local thug. This time he answers the past with cold calculation: he maxes out every loan, liquidates his assets, and frantically stockpiles supplies. Anger turns into strategy. Damon methodically hunts his betrayers, confronting the treacherous ex and brutally eliminating the thug, then expands his control—seizing his apartment building, his neighborhood, the district, and finally the city. Each conquest raises the stakes and strips another layer from the mystery of the apocalypse. Revenge and survival collide as Damon edges toward the truth that ended his first life.