ContentionBook One

August Marlow has been stranded on an alien world with nothing but his wits to guide him, and a system that can edit his very biology. On Earth, the biggest danger he’d ever faced was making sure he was never caught in bed with his best friend’s fiancé. On the unforgiving island of Devil’s Nest, danger lies in wait around every rock, and in the shadow of every tree. Monstrous creatures roam the island with impossible abilities that they should not possess. The Voithos—a dead race of gargantuan beings given new bodies by the system August carries with him—might be his only allies, but even then, some are less friendly than the monsters that want to eat him. Every step August takes in this strange place may well be his last, but he’s not going to give up until he has an answer to the question that is burning so brightly inside of him.

Who brought him to Devil’s Nest?