MANBORN: The Oath

In the wake of the Holy War, the last woman vanished from the stars.No graves were raised. No songs were mourned. Their names were burned from every archive, their faces erased from history as though they had never existed.Only the sons of men remained—young, strong, and endlessly reborn inside the same merciless wheel. Generation after generation they trained, they bled, they obeyed, all chasing the single forbidden promise: Apotheosis, the golden key that would finally set them free.Rayon is the system’s perfect weapon—undefeated champion of the brutal AGON trials, a flawless product of the Authority’s design. He has never questioned the Loop.Until a single forbidden memory surfaces in the silence between cycles, cracking everything he was taught to believe.If the daughters of the stars are truly gone… how does the universe beat with only half a heart?Now he stands at the edge of rebellion, helping others awaken, falling for the one man who makes him choose compassion over power.In a society built to punish love, to feel is not weakness—it is the most dangerous act of defiance.The first oath has been spoken.Book One of the MANBORN series. Read more