Leon's life has never offered much hope. Raised by a struggling single mother in a rough neighborhood, he and his sister grew up without their fathers. Desperate to survive, he abandoned school to work alongside his mom—yet poverty persisted. Inheriting his absent father's genetic curse, Leon receives a terminal cancer diagnosis at eighteen, a cruelty almost too absurd to bear. Unable to work physically, he turns to writing novels online, scraping together money for medical bills. When his family is torn from him by death, Leon finds himself alone in a hospital bed with nothing but his manuscript and despair. Facing the inevitable, he makes a final choice—only to awaken as Victor, a minor character in the brutal, unforgiving world of his own creation. His real nightmare is just beginning. The soft rains never came.