In Unum Terram, survival comes with rules... and questioning them can be dangerous.Kate Hawkins has always known the rules of her world. Stay in line. Trust the system. Don't ask questions that could get you noticed. Then, someone is murdered. What begins as a search for answers quickly pulls Kate into a much larger mystery... one filled with hidden motives, dangerous secrets, and unsettling questions about the people and institutions she has been taught to trust.Axel Stockton has spent years keeping his distance from everyone around him. Sharp, guarded, and difficult to read, he carries a past he would rather leave untouched. But when Kate's investigation begins to overlap with secrets Axel knows all too well, staying uninvolved is no longer an option.As Kate and Axel are drawn closer together, so are the lies surrounding them. Whispers of unexplained experiments, shifting loyalties, buried histories, and increasingly dangerous discoveries force them to question not only the world they know, but each other. The deeper they search, the harder it becomes to distinguish loyalty from manipulation and truth from the version they have been taught to believe. Every answer seems to uncover another secret, every relationship carries the possibility of betrayal, and the closer they get to the truth, the more personal the cost becomes. With danger closing in and trust becoming increasingly difficult to give, Kate and Axel must decide how far they are willing to go for answers, and, what they are willing to risk when discovering the truth could change everything.In a society built on control, the most dangerous thing they can uncover may not be what happened. It may be why.Contingents: Part I - What We Become is a young adult dystopian mystery filled with suspense, emotional tension, romance, betrayal, and twists that challenge everything its characters believe about loyalty, identity, and survival.
