Novels by Micci

In The Culling Game, survival begins at the fall… but death waits at every step. Every year, two hundred lives are stripped from their homes and thrown into the arena for an experiment as old as fear itself. The Culling Trial This year, one name didn’t belong. Kae’s. Illegally marked by his step-aunt’s ruthless blackmail, Kae never should’ve been chosen. Yet he is plunged into the trial with the other candidates, thrust into a labyrinth where everything can kill and every alliance bleeds dry. With the walls of the arena shrinking, there is no place to hide. But the greater danger waits beyond the battlefield. Even if Kae survives the trials, his enemies outside the walls—will ensure he never sees freedom again. To survive, Kae must carve a path through a world designed against him before it's too late for him.

To save his family, he had to stop being human. Twenty-four-year-old Jid has spent his life in the dirt, breathing the rust of the Bulwark slums. As the sole guardian of his younger sister, Sommy, his world is measured in scraps of bread and the hours of backbreaking labor he sells to the powerful guilds. He doesn’t dream of glory; he dreams of a roof that doesn't leak and a meal that doesn't taste like ash. But the world outside the walls is changing. The "Infected" are evolving, and the shadows are growing teeth. When a high-stakes raid into the forbidden zones turns into a bloody execution, Jid is the one left behind. Betrayed and gutted by the monsters in the dark, he should have died in the mud. Instead, something ancient and hungry found him first. Jid wakes up to a world he no longer recognizes. The pain is gone, replaced by a cold, mechanical pulse in his mind and a shimmering gold light in his eyes. A strange, haunting interface now dictates his every move, granting him powers that defy the laws of time and biology—powers that the ruling corporations would kill to own. But the "System" isn't a gift. It’s a tether to an outer-world threat that views humanity as nothing more than ink on a page, ready to be erased. Now, Jid must return to the city that abandoned him, hiding the monster he is becoming while using his new abilities to protect the only person he has left. He survived the death of his old life, but as the hunger grows and the "System" begins to rewrite his soul, Jid realizes the hardest part isn't surviving the dead—it’s surviving the thing he’s turning into. And whatever is coming for him.