Engine of Worlds

Shepherd Fox was one of the world’s most brilliant car designers and high-tech engineers—until a test of his experimental Rift Engine went catastrophically wrong. In a flash of white light and fractured time, Shepherd died… or so the world thought. He awakens in a different place, surrounded by heat, grease, and the smell of burning rubber. It's not a lab. It's not his world. It's Rio de Janeiro—and the streets are ruled by gangs, muscle cars, and a crew led by a man named Dominic Toretto. Fiction, Shepherd realizes, is now reality. As he navigates this universe where horsepower is king and loyalty runs deep, Shepherd discovers that the core embedded in his chest—the Rift Core—isn't just keeping him alive. It’s rewriting him, bonding with him, and unlocking his ability to shift between dimensions. But power like that never goes unnoticed. With corrupt agents, criminal empires, and powerful forces chasing the secret of the Rift, Shepherd must decide: will he lay low in a world on the brink of chaos—or take the wheel and steer fate itself? Because this world is fast. But he’s faster than anyone realizes.