The Lineage Shell

The Lineage Shell: A Metiara Trilogy Novel

Madison Avery survived Metiara once. Now the system wants what her family has not yet uncovered.

Three weeks after the events of The Crooked Star, Sarah, Mark, Madison, and the people gathered around the schoolhouse are still trying to turn witness statements into protection. But the records pulled from Crown Depot reveal something larger than Madison's case. She was not an exception. She was part of a design.

At the center of that design is Kassandra, a young woman held inside the Lineage Shell: a biological routing system built from family records, stolen children, civic contracts, and medical language polished clean enough for public approval.

To get her out, the resistance must enter the machinery Metiara built to hide its worst work: dry ports, capillary slums, dead records, and living children used as load-bearing architecture.

But rescue isn't enough.

If the Lineage Shell breaks, the children connected to it may break with it. And the only alternative is uglier than anyone wants to admit: willing adults carrying the damage children were forced to bear.

The Lineage Shell is the tense, gripping second book in the Metiara Trilogy. A visceral adult dystopian thriller about blood, infrastructure, civic horror, and the brutal cost of making hidden violence visible.