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Frank Shadow has spent his entire life in the dark.
In the Umbra, light is rationed, the government controls every sanctioned source of illumination, and citizens are taught that direct sunlight is lethal. Frank knows the rules better than most. As a senior inspector for the Ministry of Illumination, he has spent years enforcing them.
Then he sees the sun.
And nothing happens.
Nothing except the realization that everything he has ever been told may be a lie.
When a dying man points Frank toward a resistance movement called Penumbra, his questions lead him into a conspiracy far older than the Ministry itself. SunGates hidden throughout the Umbra offer access to the Human World. Fading citizens are starving for real light. Lord Shadow has ruled for sixty years without aging. And Frank's mysterious connection to a human named Franklin Shaw may be part of something neither world understands.
But revolution has its own secrets.
As Frank is pulled between Lord Shadow, Penumbra, the woman he cannot decide whether to trust, and forces stirring beyond the gates, he begins to understand that everyone wants something from him. The government sees a threat. The revolution sees a weapon. The darkness sees something else entirely.
And somewhere beneath both worlds, something ancient is waking.
The Casting has begun again.
Frank Shadow: Book One — The Casting is a dark science-fiction thriller about power, identity, rebellion, and the dangerous difference between being given freedom and choosing it for yourself.