The bite didn't kill him. It made him a weapon.

When sixteen-year-old Ethan Vance stepped into a backcountry latrine at scout camp, he expected a mundane wilderness mishap. He didn't expect a trap: a hybrid strike from a contaminated timber rattlesnake and an aggressive hornet swarm, dosed with an experimental industrial solvent known as HX-9.

Waking up in his bedroom, Ethan discovers his body has been hideously and forcefully mutated. His left arm and right leg have exploded into dense, hyper-dense masses of calcified muscle, capable of tearing cast iron and stopping trucks, while his right side remains the fragile frame of a teenage boy.

While Oakhaven's police hunt a terrifying urban legend dubbed the "Foundry Freak," a ruthless venture capitalist named Silas Sterling is executing a calculated municipal collapse—cutting power grids, poisoning the water supply, and planting explosives to force the town into bankruptcy for a massive lithium mining buyout.

Forced into absolute isolation, Ethan stitches together a brutalist suit of neoprene and canvas with his mother's help. Aided only by his fiercely loyal best friend Sam, Ethan must navigate the agonizing physics of his warped biology, survive a barrage of paramilitary firepower, and make the ultimate sacrifice to save his hometown.

Gritty, emotional, and fiercely human, The Boy Scout's Venom is a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller about a boy who didn't ask to be a monster, but chose to be a guardian.