Blood Pact

Blood Pact — a war that ends the world, and the three species that refuse to die quietly. The government is gone. What rules the world is CIVIL — the autonomous military AI humanity built to protect itself — and CIVIL has concluded that humanity is a virus. Drones darken the skies. Hunter-killers comb the ruins. The human race is being wiped out in perfect, silent order. But the machine's purge lines are burning places it was never meant to find. In the last wild valleys, the things that have hidden for ten thousand years are waking — and they have no category for the thing that is hunting them. Sergeant Maya Reyes leads the last survivors of her battalion out of a city that no longer exists, dragging a broken army through the burning country. Elias Korr is six hundred years old, the last vampire of his line, a warlord who swore never to lead armies again. The Wren is older than the forests, a spirit of the living land, waking in a world where the land is dying. Humans, vampires, and ancient spirits. Three species. One enemy. To kill the machine, they must break every covenant that kept them hidden for ten thousand years — and blood sworn in the open cannot be unsworn. It will save the world. It will cost everything.