Archon Deception (The Archon Genesis Series)

By Zavrick Steele

Mattias Ferrante used to certify orbital platforms. Then one came apart, fourteen people died, and his signature was on the paperwork. Six years later, he fixes pumps on Brinecut, a mining colony owned top to bottom by Continental Yield.

So when the colony's defense grid starts reporting perfect readings-no drift, no noise, nothing real hardware ever does-Matt knows that kind of perfect. He's seen it once before. His fault ticket is closed in four minutes, by no one.

By morning, the company has declared a blight outbreak. Evacuation transports are already in orbit, and they left their yard four days before anyone reported a thing. And Matt is sent down to a sealed deck to close valves nobody needs closed.

Buried alive in a collapsed gallery, he grabs the only other living thing in the dark: an eyeless, starving predator caught halfway through solid stone. It bites. The System throws an error. And a class banned by Consensus accord wakes up with his name on it.

Neural-Archon.

Now Matt can bond creatures, feel what they feel, and borrow what they can do, and every bond costs him something. With the company "evacuating" his neighbors onto freight scales and a polite corporate director who always calls first, Matt has one hungry hound, a handful of survivors with secrets, and a choice between staying hidden and fighting back.

Archon Deception is Book One of The Archon Genesis, a dark sci-fi LitRPG with monster bonding, bio-horror, and hard-won progression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPPM8GK8
• ISBN13: 9798166254368
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.0"