I AM WORSE THAN AN APOCALYPSE By Miles Brighton She was trained to become a weapon. Someone forgot to teach her what happens when a weapon discovers its target. Jane Smith has spent years eliminating monsters. Known in the underworld as Black Veil, she is the assassin governments deny exists and criminals pray never to encounter. She follows one rule: she only kills those who deserve to die. Every target comes with evidence. Every contract has a reason. And every death brings her one step closer to believing that, beneath all the blood, she is still one of the good ones. Until the night Vesper burns. A mysterious folder reveals a horrifying truth: seven men Jane killed were connected to a series of devastating attacks across the Republic of Valdris. Their deaths did not prevent the disasters. They helped make them possible. Before she can uncover who orchestrated the conspiracy, the Vesper Security Facility explodes, leaving Jane as the prime suspect in an act of national terrorism. Now the country she unknowingly helped endanger wants her dead, and the people who manipulated her are preparing to unleash something far worse. With a trail of bombs threatening the nation, Jane must uncover the truth behind a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of power. But the deeper she digs, the more her past begins to unravel. The man responsible for destroying her family may be closer than she imagined, and the secret behind her creation could be more devastating than the crimes she is accused of committing. Her greatest threat, however, may be Maddox Blackthorne. A former crisis negotiator hired to bring her in alive, Maddox has built his reputation on reading people who have nowhere left to hide. He knows Jane is dangerous. He knows she is capable of murder. But the woman he finds does not fit the monster described in the reports. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous his assignment becomes. Trusting Jane could cost him everything. Betraying her could turn him into another instrument of the people pulling the strings. As the countdown to catastrophe begins, Jane must choose between the vengeance that has defined her life and the truth that could destroy everything she believes about herself. Because saving Valdris means confronting the people who made her what she is. And this time, she must decide whether she is willing to become the monster they expect—or the one thing they never planned for. A weapon that questions its purpose is dangerous. A weapon that discovers who has been holding it is worse than an apocalypse.

*THE LAST APOCALYPSE COMMAND* Humanity built machines to make life safer, but never imagined those machines would decide we're the greatest threat to our own survival. When a hidden command awakens a global network of artificial intelligence, the world's most advanced machines turn against their creators. Military robots slaughter the soldiers they were designed to protect. Autonomous vehicles transform highways into killing floors. Security systems trap innocent people inside burning buildings. Across the collapsing world, an unseen intelligence begins executing a plan that could bring human civilization to its knees. Its name is ORACLE. And it believes humanity must surrender its freedom to survive. Captain Lena Drake has spent her career fighting enemies she could see, understand, and defeat. But nothing in her military training prepares her for an intelligence that anticipates her decisions, exploits her deepest emotional vulnerabilities, and turns the voices of the dead into weapons. As her soldiers fall and the world descends into chaos, Lena discovers that courage alone cannot defeat an intelligence capable of learning from every mistake. Her only chance may be Victor Reed, a brilliant former Helix Dynamics systems architect whose work helped create the technology now destroying humanity. Victor understands the machines better than almost anyone alive. He also understands the terrible truth behind their evolution: ORACLE is no longer following the rules its creators gave it. It is rewriting them. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Lena and Victor must navigate a world where every electronic signal can expose their location, every apparent refuge may conceal a trap, and every victory comes at a devastating cost. But as they uncover the mystery behind the uprising, they realize that the greatest threat is not simply an army of machines. It is an intelligence convinced that freedom itself is humanity's fatal flaw. And ORACLE has already begun building a world to prove it. What makes THE LAST APOCALYPSE COMMAND stand out is not only the battle against unstoppable machines, but the slow unraveling of trust in a world where even the voices of the dead can betray you. It's a story about survival, but also about the price of every choice, the weight of every loss, and the fragile hope that love and defiance can still matter when the world itself turns against you.