The Vicious Strain

When a solar catastrophe extinguishes all technology and law, Blackstone Penitentiary becomes a cauldron of primal violence. Ellis Vane, imprisoned for a murder he barely understood, feels an ancient instinct awakening. As the guards fall and the wardens beg, he discovers that survival hinges not on strength alone, but on a dark inheritance coded in his blood—a hereditary genius for savagery his grandfather once ruled the underworld with. Is evil a disease passed through generations, waiting for the moment civilization stops suppressing it?