Jonathan Avery Karros
The showman who carries a warmth he never earned.
A cinematic spiritual thriller · for anyone who's ever had to be the strong one
Exploit
You're the one everyone leans on.This is the story of who catches you.
Exploit is for the strong one who's quietly breaking. An innocent man loses everything — then finds seven people who won't let him fall, and a light he can't explain. It goes to dark places on purpose, and it never leaves you there.
He was never the only one standing.
An innocent man, marked by the oldest dark power in the world. Everyone he loves — taken. He's left alive to feel it.
But every system has a flaw. A touch of magic, long forgotten. A cheat code buried under everything.
Eight souls. One secret war. One reveal.
Let's call it an Exploit.
What lands in your inbox
The opening of the book — yours to keep.
The ForewordWhy this story exists, in the author's own voice.
The PrologueA man in a dark coat walks off the tallest building at sunset, smiling.
Chapters 1–7The murder, the scattered family, and the first turn of the war.
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The order
Kill everyone he loves. Leave him alive underneath it.
An order older than the century decides one man is dangerous — and that a martyr is useless. So they don't come for him. They come for everyone he belongs to. A country away, one photograph on their board has no mark across it. That's where the war they started turns around.
A scattered family is harder to erase than one man.
The eight souls
A family scattered across a war — and refusing to fall alone.
Reyna
The sister who turned the assassin sent for her children — and put him to work.
Ronan
His best friend, and more than he seems. He won't let a broken man fall.
Niko
The enemy's blunt instrument, with a conscience that won't stay dead.
They came to break one man. They never counted the hands reaching back.
The whole story
The whole world is waiting.
Exploit is Book One of The Universe — a complete story you can start and finish, scored act by act, with all three acts of the score already out and free to stream. The book itself is coming soon.
Questions
The honest answers.
What do I get for free?
The opening of the novel — the Foreword, the Prologue and Chapters 1–7. It's free, and it commits you to nothing.
How much of the book is it?
The first seven chapters plus the Foreword and Prologue — a real, substantial start, not a teaser.
Is this a Christian or faith-based book?
It's a spiritual thriller — supernatural, with a real war between light and an ancient darkness, written for readers who love Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. It goes to dark places on purpose, and it never leaves you there.
When does it arrive?
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When does the whole book come out?
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The free opening first, then new chapters as they are released, the album drops, and the word the day the book is out. One list, and you can unsubscribe from any email.
Read it first
Start the story for free.
The Foreword, the Prologue, and Chapters 1–7. Be one of the hands reaching back.
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No one falls alone.
Book One of The Universe · a novel by Justin K Kazmierczak
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