"The Will To Not Stop" Vol. - 1 "The Caged Storm"

Kael is seventeen years old.

He is also fourteen thousand years old, and the most dangerous thing alive — though nobody in Vasren knows it. Not his sister Mira. Not his friends. Not the school that gave him a B-minus in history because he found it funny not to ace it.

Kael has spent ten thousand years building a quiet life. Writing poems at traffic lights. Playing football on Tuesdays. Keeping the monster inside him carefully, exhaustingly caged — because the last time it got out, things ended badly for everyone nearby.

Then the Ouroboros Compact arrives.

An organisation so old the world has forgotten it existed. So patient it spent ten thousand years in hiding, growing powerful enough to do what it could not do before — use the one thing Kael cannot protect himself against.

The people he loves.

When Mira and his friends vanish without a trace — erased from the city's memory as if they never existed — Kael must decide how far he will go to bring them home. And the monster behind his ribs, ancient and awake and done with waiting, has its own answer to that question.

The Caged Storm is the first volume of The Will to Not Stop — an epic fantasy series about loss, love, and the stubborn human refusal to stop going when every reason to continue has been taken away.