Eight hundred years after The Reckoning killed eleven billion people, humanity survives under the Kafra Limits—global technology restrictions enforced by a handful of immortal guardians. No digital computing. No fossil fuels. No weapons of mass destruction.

Most societies treat the Limits as a ceiling. Cambria chose to go further, building a utopia based on community, purpose, and the pursuit of human happiness.

Simon Finnigan has never fit in. His preference for solitude makes him an outsider in a society built on connection. When a brutal attack in the wilds of rewilded Scotland leaves him broken, he faces a future trapped among the very people he’s spent his life avoiding.

Then a mysterious woman arrives with an impossible offer. She is Kafra—one of the ancient immortals who police humanity’s technological limits. She can heal him completely. But her help comes with a price: a new identity, a secret purpose, and a role protecting Cambria from dangers gathering beyond its borders.

His name will be Finn.

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