Predator in the Drops
The rain doesn't just fall anymore, it hunts.

By 2050, Earth has become a blistered, rotting shell of its former self. Unchecked climate collapse has boiled coastlines and erased governments, but the deadliest threat now falls from above. A flesh-eating bacterium, born in brackish water and evolved in secrecy, now thrives in every droplet of rain. Those who step outside unarmored don’t come back whole.

In this scorched world, silence is safety and trust is a death sentence.

Kaiyen Vault, a former hydrologist turned essential courier, knows survival is a brutal science. Outfitted in hand-forged metal and scarred by grief, he risks everything to find Clean Verge, a rumored haven in the Rockies where the water still runs pure. But others are hunting too. One of them wears his past like armor.

Nyah Blee, once his lover, now leads a fanatical sect that baptizes with infection. She believes the bacteria is divine punishment, and Kaiyen is the heretic who betrayed its cause. Armed with syringes filled with death, she’s not just spreading the sickness. She’s guiding it.

Alongside a fractured group of survivors, a haunted sanitation chief, a conspiracy-theorist professor, and a teenage girl who has never known clean air, Kaiyen must navigate boiling cities, collapsing faith, and betrayal at every turn. But even if Clean Verge is real, the question remains:

Can someone still infected with the world be worthy of cleansing?

Predator in the Drops is a visceral, armor-clad journey through plague and redemption, a dystopian survival thriller where water is no longer life... it’s the most efficient predator Earth ever produced.