Franklin Publishers has announced the release of Recurve by KC Lewis, a science fiction thriller that combines military survival, psychological suspense, cosmic mystery, and deeply human questions about identity, loss, and purpose. Set in a quarantined Houston devastated by a catastrophic First Contact event, the novel follows an amnesiac survivor who awakens alone in an abandoned hospital with no memory of his past and no understanding of the nightmare unfolding beyond its walls.
As he joins a group of soldiers and survivors fighting to contain a growing threat, he discovers he is connected to a classified experiment known as the Reclamation Project—and to a force that may be altering the boundaries between life, death, and reality itself. Known only as Teller, Subject Four, or the Fortune Teller, the protagonist possesses a terrifying ability: death is not the end. Each time he falls, he returns with fragments of knowledge from alternate outcomes, forcing him to relive impossible tragedies while searching for a future in which humanity survives.
What begins as a desperate fight against monstrous Ferronines and a mysterious silver substance known as Argentum gradually unfolds into a larger story about memory, transformation, grief, faith, sacrifice, and the enduring search for meaning in a fractured world. Blending the intensity of military science fiction with the emotional depth of character-driven speculative fiction, Recurve explores what remains of a person when every certainty has been stripped away. At its heart, the novel asks a simple but profound question: If you were given endless chances to save the people you love, how many times would you be willing to suffer to get it right?
Inspired by a concept that originated from a recurring nightmare and developed over more than five years of writing, Recurve represents the opening chapter of the larger Argentum universe created by Houston author KC Lewis. In his preface, Lewis describes the novel as a story born from grief, perseverance, imagination, and the belief that stories can remind readers that they are not alone. The book is available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover formats. For more information, visit Franklin Publishers.
