The Helix Kiss

di Akankshya Ingale (Autore)

Akankshya Ingale, 2025

Book 1: The Helix Kiss To survive the Helix, they must fall in love—or be unmade. The Earth is dying. Humanity is sterile. The Ministry promises salvation through the Helix, a sentient alien virus dwelling in the planet's core. Its ritual—the Trinity—merges two humans into a single, immortal post-human being capable of creating new life. But the process demands more than survival. It demands perfect, unconditional love. Vesper Korr, a war-scarred soldier, believes the Trinity is her grim duty. Kaelen Voss, a rebellious artist, believes it is the erasure of the human soul. They despise each other. To their horror, the Helix chooses them as partners. Thrown together in confinement and subjected to the Helix's Merging Chamber, their minds are stripped bare, every trauma and shame laid open for the other to see. Their hatred makes survival impossible—until the intimacy of shared scars breeds a fragile respect, and then a dangerous attraction. But the truth is worse than the ritual. Most candidates fail. They are not saviors in waiting, but sacrifices to a lonely alien god. Now Vesper and Kael must do the impossible: fall in love on command, forge a bond powerful enough to withstand the Helix's brutal embrace, and uncover the Ministry's lie before they are erased. Their only path forward is a love born of pain—and if they succeed, they will be remade as something terrifying, beautiful, and not entirely human. This is the world of The Trinity Cycle—a sweeping, visceral trilogy blending science fiction, romance, and cosmic horror. In Book 1: The Helix Kiss, cynical soldier Vesper Korr and rebellious artist Kaelen Voss are mortal enemies, symbols of two ideologies that hate everything the other stands for. When the Helix selects them as partners, their mutual contempt is a death sentence. To survive the Merging Chamber, they must do the impossible: love every broken, shameful piece of each other, even as the Ministry hides the truth—that most pairings fail, fed as sacrifices to a lonely alien god. Their fragile, desperate connection becomes both rebellion and salvation, forging a new being with echoes of their former selves still alive inside. In Book 2: The God-Form, Vesper and Kael survive as Nexus, a powerful post-human entity—but their two souls remain, warring inside their godlike form. Hated by purist rebels, distrusted by other Trinities, and feared by the Ministry, Nexus learns the Helix has its own agenda: it is building an army, not of saviors, but of soldiers for an ancient cosmic war. To survive, Vesper and Kael must prove that their fractured duality is not weakness but strength. In a city of immortal gods, they are the most unstable—and the most dangerous. In Book 3: The Singularity War, the Helix's ancient enemy arrives: the Unraveler, a being of entropy that devours worlds. The Helix proposes its final gambit: the Singularity Protocol, merging all life into a single hive consciousness. To many, it is salvation. To others, annihilation of free will. At the heart of this choice stands Nexus, torn between soldier and artist, duty and love. To save both humanity and Trinity, they must attempt the unthinkable: shatter their divine form and embrace mortality once again.

• Autore: Akankshya Ingale
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Akankshya Ingale
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798230815792