The Animal Underneath

Ver Ansen was born in the post-war ruins of one world and wakes seventy-five years later inside another: clean, gentle, beautiful, and built on lies — and Ver starts planning his way into the one place the new world hides its knowledge..

The new world has no hunger, no war, no violence, and no dangerous knowledge in the hands of ordinary people. It has schools instead of battlefields, smiling citizens instead of soldiers, and Inquisitors who keep everyone safe from the old mistakes.

Ver knows better.

He has survived hunger, experiments, cryostasis, and the kind of childhood that turns a clever boy into something quiet and dangerous. Now he must learn how to live in a civilization too soft to understand him, while the truths buried beneath it begin to move.

A dark science-fiction dystopian story about forbidden knowledge, survival, trauma, found family, dangerous loyalty, slow-burn romantic tension, and the animal underneath every human being.