Rowan Vale: Bloodbound System
"You will not die here. Not yet."
The ruins of Black Hollow were supposed to be empty. Instead, they held a secret older than the Kingdom itself.
When Hunter Rowan Vale touches a buried artifact to save his team, he unwittingly becomes the vessel for the Weeping Hunger—a Crimson Sovereign that views flesh as clay to be molded.
He survives the massacre with bones that shift beneath his skin and eyes that see the heat of dying things. But survival comes with a heavy price. His partner, Caren, has been taken by the very beast that slaughtered their squad, and Rowan is the only one who knows she is still alive.
Exiled by the Guild’s fear and driven by a supernatural hunger, Rowan must return to the ruins. But the voice in his head is getting louder, and the mutations are getting stronger.
In a world where corruption is a death sentence, Rowan is walking the razor's edge between Savior and Abomination.