Buried in Gold, Left with Platinum

A child groomed to disappear. A woman who died to give him a name.



Dev, a quiet eight-year-old in a frozen American orphanage, is overlooked by everyone — except Alex Reed, a scarred ex-CIA operative who sees something no one else does. She doesn’t want a son. She wants a shadow. She trains him to survive, to fight, to vanish. She never asks for love — and he never offers it.



By ten, Dev becomes “BlackSnow,” a ghost-level hacker-for-hire. When Alex dies in an ambush, he goes dark — chasing the pieces of her past through burned agents, dead-end cities, and corrupt governments. What he finds rewrites everything: he was the mission, marked for death by the CIA at his father’s command. Alex broke protocol to save him.



Now, Dev tears through the global network that tried to erase him — one encrypted layer at a time. He dismantles his father’s empire, uncovers the mother who tried to save him, and vanishes into legend. But when the world finally burns down around him, he doesn’t look back. He builds something new. Quiet. Hidden. For the others like him.



In the end, Dev leaves behind gold. Keeps only platinum.