The Hemovore Accord — James Dargan

The Hemovore Accord: The Blood Machine Cycle — Book FourThe future doesn't starve. It feeds.From a fortified compound beneath the Alps came a lifeline: a biomedical cure that turned scarcity into opportunity.Blood for stability. A cure that changes the cured.What began as a plasma-enhancing virus becomes a forced evolution. The infected don't weaken — they sharpen. Stronger. Faster. Hungry. Governments label them optimized. Corporations register them as assets. The world markets them as necessary to survive.Ambassador Mireille Durand signs the Hemovore Accord to preserve humanity. She doesn't realize she's redefining it.While donor farms rise behind razor wire and state-run nutrition programs disguise extraction as mercy, a young policy aide — Christopher Lancaster — uncovers the true economics of survival: suffering monetized, vulnerability industrialized, life redesigned as inventory.Not everyone will starve. Some will feed forever.The Hemovore Accord is the chilling origin of The Blood Machine Cycle — a world where compassion is regulated, hunger is weaponized, and the price of living is paid in blood.Perfect for readers of Richard K. Morgan, Jeff VanderMeer, and Cormac McCarthy — dystopian biotech horror where hope is the most dangerous resource left.