Trent of Duhrine: Blood and Protocol

His innocence set him free. His freedom lasted seconds.

The night Trent Thornes world shattered in gunpowder and trauma, he was accused of the unthinkable: murdering his own parents. Cleared of the crime but marked by the accusation, he walks out of the courtroom a free man, ready to piece his life back together.

But freedom is a fleeting illusion. Dragged from the street into the shadows, Trent becomes the newest asset of a clandestine organization that views minds as weapons to be acquired, honed, and deployed. His past is a liability, his will an inconvenience, and his memories are a threat to their control.

Trapped in a world of lethal training and insidious psychological manipulation, Trent must navigate a labyrinth of lies where every memory is suspect and every alliance is a potential trap. The architects of his new reality want to forge him into the perfect operative, but they underestimated the one thing they cant erase: his will to survive.

In a war where the most dangerous battlefield is the human mind, can he win himself back?