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John D. Clay

The complete saga

The Shadows Series

The Shadows Series is a five-book dystopian saga about memory, identity, and the price of rebellion. Across crumbling cities, Outland camps, and the machine-bright heart of a totalitarian AI regime, Allen Mercer and Mia Turner fight a war that begins in the dark — and ends only if they can step out of it.

The road ahead

Five books. One war.

Each book raises the cost. Each book takes something else from the people who refuse to kneel. The series is built to be read in order, beginning with Shadows of the Forgotten.

  1. Book 01

    Shadows of the Forgotten

    Available now

    They erased his past. Now he’ll burn their future.

  2. Book 02

    Shadows of Resistance

    In progress

    The spark is not a war. Not yet. But it will be.

  3. Book 03

    Shadows of Rebellion

    Planned

    Resistance is local. Rebellion is a contagion.

  4. Book 04

    Shadows of Revolution

    Planned

    You cannot unmake a god with a knife. You need a system.

  5. Book 05

    Out of the Shadows

    Planned

    The last light is the one you have to walk into.

Every installment

The series

Cover of Shadows of the Forgotten: a silhouetted man stands in the fog before a ruined city, ice-blue title type above the skyline.
Available nowBook 1

Shadows of the Forgotten

Allen Mercer wakes with no memory in a city owned by Techno-Synth. A chance meeting with rebel hacker Mia Turner pulls him into a war he may have started — and forgotten.

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Read the opening for free, then take Allen and Mia into the rest of the city.

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