Some bloodlines weren't meant to survive.Ellis Thorne's medication was a lie. The hallucinations he's battled for years aren't mental illness-they're an inherited ability to control reality itself. When his mother dies, leaving him a house that breathes and bleeds secrets, Ellis discovers he's the fifth generation in a lineage of "reality anchors" protecting our world from what lies beyond perception. But the house knows more than Ellis: - Walls that rewrite themselves based on his anxiety levels - A basement mural predicting his name in blood - Neighborhood pets birthing Fibonacci-patterned litters As Ellis reduces his antipsychotics, his radius of influence grows-and so does the hunger of something ancient watching from the edges of his mind.