In a near-future Philippines fractured by poverty, surveillance, and secret experiments, seventeen-year-old Elias Navarro suffers a fatal accident that should’ve claimed his life. But at the brink of death, a voice whispers inside his mind: “Wake up.”
He awakens, miraculously healed—but something’s changed. His shadow… moves. Thinks. Fights.
Elias discovers he is part of an emerging breed known as Shadowkin—humans bound to autonomous, sentient shadows with supernatural abilities. While Elias struggles to understand his gift and keep it hidden, others like him have chosen darker paths.
Now hunted by a secret military faction and entangled in a war between rogue Shadowkin and an underground rebellion, Elias must decide: Will he control the darkness—or become consumed by it?