The Garden of AYON: Last Initiatee

The Garden forgets every face. It never loses count.After the Holy War, the last woman vanished from the stars. On the frozen planet of AYON, only the sons of men remain, sealed underground-twenty years old forever, reborn every Cycle with their memories wiped clean.They wake to train, bleed and be ranked. The Elohim in white rule their days. The Nyx in black watch their nights. Every seventh day, the Garden sends teams of five aboveground on deadly expeditions. Not all return. Those who survive chase a single promise: Apotheosis, the only way out of AYON.Rayon is Rank One of Sector 72. He remembers nothing but his name, trusts no one but his metrics, and believes this Cycle will be his last.Then, in the forbidden chamber Rayon thought only he knew, a stranger appears from another Sector: a young man as beautiful as he is fragile, and far more dangerous than he looks. He carries a secret that could shake AYON to its foundations. For the first time, someone looks at Rayon without measuring him. And for the first time, Rayon wants something no rank can earn. But in AYON, what grows between them is a crime the Garden never forgives.When the next expedition sends Rayon and his team into the ruins of a world older than AYON, he begins to uncover what the Garden was built to conceal-and what its rulers will do to keep it buried.The Garden has always counted its sons.Now Rayon must decide who counts for him.The Garden of AYON - Book OneA dark dystopian novel for adult readers, with explicit content and violence