TROTILLIONS: BLIND SPOT

The Dead Lands were never empty. They were only quiet.

After the White Heat, survival became a matter of routes, instincts, and negotiated violence. Water is power. Maps are weapons. And every faction in the Valley believes it understands the new rules well enough to stay alive.

Viga Brand knows better.

When the water supply of the Crossroads is threatened, Brand is forced into a choice that no courier wants: obey the old powers, burn a fragile alliance, or enter the dead city of Albuquerque in search of something buried beneath the old world.

But the city is not a ruin. It is a system.

Inside the Kettle, the mindless Shells are no longer wandering. They build. They obey. They move like fingers guided by a hidden nerve. Somewhere beneath the concrete, something is waking up—and every faction outside the city is still fighting over scraps, unaware that the real architecture of power has already begun to grow.

Brand is not going in alone. Rascal, his massive black cat and the only intelligence in the world that refuses to fit any human model, walks beside him. Finn, a fourteen-year-old mutation caught between boy, weapon, and signal, may be the only thing the city cannot hear.

And above all of them, the Contour watches.

Blind Spot expands the Trotillions universe from desert survival into urban horror and systemic conspiracy. It is a story about the price of knowledge, the illusion of free choice, and the terrifying moment when a man realizes the route he chose may have been drawn for him long before he ever saw the map.

• Second book in the Trotillions series currently in development.

• First half of the draft completed as of June 2026.

• Expands the IP into a larger cinematic mythology built around factions, biological transformation, survival logistics, and the hidden architecture of power.