Between the Twenty-Six Letters

Running away from home was supposed to be simple—until Ecks uncovered his childhood friend's darkest secret and stumbled into a shadowy organization that shouldn't exist. Now his ordinary life as a 17-year-old is unraveling fast, tangled in conspiracies he never asked for. But amid the chaos, he meets someone who makes every risk worth taking. In a fractured world where war has redrawn humanity and mysterious letters bloom across people's skin—symbols of power, identity, and connection—Ecks must navigate a society split between utopian dreams and dystopian realities. What do the letters mean?…