The FluxFall Protocol: A Jericho Cain & Cage McQuade Story Paperback – April 3, 2026

Twenty-five years in the future, an event known as the Hollowing did what no war ever could: it erased the old world in minutes.The global power grid collapsed. Billions died. The atmosphere itself became electrified—volatile, unstable, and permanently altered.Jericho Cain survived. He should not have. A former soldier with a taste for cheap bourbon and a gift for finding trouble, Jericho lives along the fractured New Jersey coastline, taking contract work from the Bureau—the regime that now controls what little infrastructure remains. He does not ask questions. He does not plan ahead. He drinks until the memories go quiet, then wakes up and does it again.Then the power starts behaving in ways it should not.Jericho’s oldest friend, engineer Cage McQuade, is the only man who can explain why—and the only one stubborn enough to keep Jericho alive while they chase the answer. When they investigate a string of anomalies in the coastal town of Hustler, they uncover something far worse than a failing grid. Someone is manipulating the atmosphere itself—siphoning power, destabilizing regions, and building toward a second catastrophe that would make the Hollowing look like a rehearsal.At the center of it all is Dr. Heinrich Kincade, the physicist responsible for the first Hollowing. Buried two hundred feet underground, he believes he can finish what he started—not to destroy the world, but to control it.He calls it the FluxFall Protocol.Jericho calls it a problem.Cage calls it the end of the world.They’re both right. Read more