Liam Spencer wasn’t supposed to go out like this. Diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, he had resigned himself to a slow, inevitable goodbye — surrounded by family, in peace. But fate thrust him into tragedy when he heroically took a bullet meant for Steffy. His act of love and sacrifice rewrote his ending in the most painful way.

The surgery that followed was frantic. Liam survived the bullet, barely. But it had triggered rapid, catastrophic growth in the tumor. What was once weeks of life had collapsed into mere days — if that. In steps Brooke Logan, relentless and desperate to save a man she considers family. She scoured the world for hope and found it in the most unlikely place: Zurich, in the hands of a genius but reclusive doctor, Theo Eisenhart.

The proposed treatment? A micro-radiation chip implanted directly into the brain, tested on only five people. The odds were horrific: 5% survival. But Liam, clinging to the hope of giving his daughter one final month of memories, chose to risk it. “If I have 30 days, I can write Kelly letters for her whole life,” he said, his voice soft but resolute.

In a snowbound research facility high in the Alps, Liam was prepped for the most dangerous procedure of his life. The chip, no larger than a grain of rice, was inserted directly into his brain. The surgery was lightning-fast. The aftermath, a warzone. Liam seized, collapsed, nearly died — until, on the third day, his eyes opened.

He remembered Steffy’s name.

The tumor had stopped growing. The chip was working. But this was only the beginning. The man who funded Luna’s madness is still out there, hidden in plain sight. The golden bullet was only a warning — the true conspiracy has just begun.