In a near-future Washington, D.C., Emmanuel is a man on the edge-of success, of sanity, and of something far greater. Once a survivor of poverty and trauma, now a father and rising voice, he begins to experience strange shifts in perception-seeing patterns in reality, hearing meaning beneath sound, and feeling a presence guiding him toward something he cannot explain.
Then everything breaks.
After a violent transformation that leaves him physically altered and no longer fully human, Emmanuel becomes the center of a global phenomenon. Hunted by a covert government agency and watched by a world that can't decide if he's a miracle or a threat, he must navigate a new existence where myth and reality collide.
But Emmanuel is not alone.
Across the globe, others are beginning to change-each transformation different, each rewriting what it means to be human. As society struggles to contain the unexplainable, Emmanuel discovers that his evolution may be part of something much larger: a shift in consciousness, a merging of the ancient and the modern, and a reckoning with the true cost of wisdom.
The Rhythm of Broken Tusk is a gritty, mythic, and thought-provoking journey into identity, transformation, and the future of humanity-where becoming more may require losing everything.