THE EDGE GETS BIGGER, BOLDER AND A WHOLE LOT SPICIER
S. David Acuff’s Amazon bestselling dystopian epic returns as a five-volume adventure spanning nearly 150,000 words, five territories, one broken America—and a love story decidedly not written for children.
BURBANK, Calif. — The sky was a lie.
And apparently 150,000 words were required to explain why.
Following its Amazon bestselling launch, author S. David Acuff and BravoBay Books are expanding THE EDGE into its definitive five-volume edition: an R-rated dystopian science-fiction road epic encompassing Fourth Ward, La Camelote, The Boneyard, Spanish Cession and Edge City.
The complete saga now clocks in at approximately 150,000 words, with each of its five acts receiving its own paperback volume, cover and distinct corner of a fractured future America.
And yes. This is the spicy one.
Acuff describes The Edge as approximately 🌶️🌶️ out of five peppers—considerably more adult than his previous fiction. The novel earns its figurative R rating through violence, language and sexual situations, with several relationships unfolding on the page rather than disappearing behind the traditional fade-to-black.
But The Edge isn’t a romance novel wearing combat boots.
It’s an enormous dystopian road movie.
FIVE BOOKS. ONE JOURNEY.
The adventure begins two miles above what was once Chicago.
BOOK ONE — FOURTH WARD (32,948 words)
Skyberia is one of civilization’s greatest achievements: a magnificent domed metropolis suspended two miles above the wastelands, home to 1.5 million people who have largely forgotten that hunger, famine and scarcity exist.
Then a handful of privileged young Skyberians fall out of heaven.
BOOK TWO — LA CAMELOTE (33,833 words)
The survivors cross into the strange French-controlled territory of La Camelote, encounter the Gator Guild and meet the dangerously entertaining Lebeaux. Contracts are made. Contracts are broken. Relationships get considerably more complicated.
BOOK THREE — THE BONEYARD (30,226 words)
Deep in the desert lies an enormous graveyard of forgotten aircraft—and one impossible Spanish galleon half buried in the sand.
It’s the last person in the world Ryder wanted to see again. Her father, Jericho Ryder.
There is an Energon-powered nuclear rocket sled. A Pirate ship.
Things happen.
BOOK FOUR — SPANISH CESSION (29,699 words)
The road carries the survivors into the Spanish Cession and the court of Queen Reyna, where freedom has a price and the Portal Games offer contestants the opportunity to win it.
Assuming they survive.
BOOK FIVE — EDGE CITY (22,389 words)
At the end of the road lies Los Angeles.
Or what’s left of it.
A catastrophic earthquake has torn a massive rift through Southern California. The old city lies beneath the Pacific, its towers becoming an enormous artificial reef. On the Valley side, abandoned streets sit beneath shallow running water as vines climb ruined buildings and mist perpetually rolls in from the Edge.
Nobody has lived there in twenty years.
Something else has.
Rattlers—decaying autonomous war machines built like tracked mechanical scorpions—still patrol the drowned streets.
And somewhere inside Edge City lies the secret that could change everything.
FROM AMAZON BESTSELLER TO FIVE-VOLUME EPIC
The Edge: Fourth Ward arrived on Amazon in May 2026 with a reader-acquisition campaign that put more than 1,500 copies of the opening installment into circulation and propelled the book to #1 in two Amazon categories.
More importantly, readers didn’t stop with Book One.
Paid sales followed across all five installments, giving BravoBay Books an early indication that readers were willing to make the entire journey from Skyberia to the Edge.
The newly completed edition expands and revises that original release considerably. The current manuscript stands at approximately:
149,095 words. Close enough that we’re calling it 150,000.
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION
The five individual volumes are designed to function almost like episodes of a prestige television series, each with its own location, visual identity and cliffhanger-driven section of the larger journey.
The final volume will also serve as something of an Edge encyclopedia, with approximately 20 additional pages planned for character information, world history, terminology and other archival material from the universe.
And for readers who want the whole damn thing at once, BravoBay Books is also developing a single-volume hardcover edition containing the complete five-act novel.
One enormous story.
Five territories.
A drowned Los Angeles.
A city floating two miles above Chicago.
French mercenaries. Spanish royalty. Pirates. Portal technology. Mechanical scorpions. Flying galleons.
And several extremely complicated relationships.
Welcome back to THE EDGE.
The sky was a lie.
Start here: The Edge: Fourth Ward on BravoBay — or Buy on Amazon.
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