Cerys Halbrook has built her career on a single belief: not every monster needs to be destroyed.
As Assistant Director of Research for the ECPS, she studies what others fear: cryptids, possession events, extradimensional threats, and the impossible creatures that slip through the seams of the world. Where others see danger, Cerys searches for patterns. Meaning. A way to understand what should not exist.
Then the agency captures Aries Strix.
He is not what they expected.
Descended from the first Veilborn bloodline, Aries carries the bound essence of Rhexiel, an Umbriel Devourer, one of the oldest shadow-born predators in existence. For thirty-four years, Aries has shared his body with the ancient being inside him, tempering Rhexiel’s hunger at the cost of his own autonomy.
But Aries is not possessed.
He is shared.
Two consciousnesses.
One body.
A bond forged in childhood, sustained by restraint, and complicated by something far more dangerous than fear.
Choice.
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Cerys Halbrook has built her career on a single belief: not every monster needs to be destroyed.
As Assistant Director of Research for the ECPS, she studies what others fear: cryptids, possession events, extradimensional threats, and the impossible creatures that slip through the seams of the world. Where others see danger, Cerys searches for patterns. Meaning. A way to understand what should not exist.
Then the agency captures Aries Strix.
He is not what they expected.
Descended from the first Veilborn bloodline, Aries carries the bound essence of Rhexiel, an Umbriel Devourer, one of the oldest shadow-born predators in existence. For thirty-four years, Aries has shared his body with the ancient being inside him, tempering Rhexiel’s hunger at the cost of his own autonomy.
But Aries is not possessed.
He is shared.
Two consciousnesses.
One body.
A bond forged in childhood, sustained by restraint, and complicated by something far more dangerous than fear.
Choice.