Description
Insurrection is the gripping debut novel set in the Moreauvia universe: a dark, alternate 19th century where the beast-men of H.G. Wells’ classic The Island of Dr. Moreau are not a madman’s isolated experiment, but a global reality.
In the early 1800s, America weaponized these engineered human-animal hybrids as a new slave labor force, bypassing the catastrophic collapse of the Civil War. Spared from the devastation of that internal conflict, the United States has accelerated into an aggressive, unstoppable global titan. Now, in the 1870s, instead of rebuilding a fractured nation through Reconstruction, an ambitious America stands on the precipice of invading British-controlled Canada.
But the foundation of this empire is rotting from within.
Deep in the rural wilds of Arkansas, a violent spark ignites. A small uprising among the “animal” labor force rapidly swells into a brutal rebellion, utterly shattering the local militia. Desperate, the governor begs Washington for intervention. The federal government’s response is an ideological lightning bolt: they deploy a battle-hardened U.S. Colored Regiment, soldiers themselves unchained from human bondage barely a generation prior, to crush the rebelling beasts.
As old loyalties clash with a terrifying new reality, common soldiers find themselves trapped in a harrowing moral crucible, torn between their military oaths and the agonizing pull of what is right.
