Marian Black

He spent eleven years hiding what he was. It took one machine one second to take everything.

Christopher has built his entire life around a single, exhausting truth: stay hidden, stay free. A stolen name. Carefully sourced suppressants. Eleven years of iron discipline — all of it holding the world at bay. Then he collapses on a loading dock,...

He was built to destroy monsters. Now one has saved his life — and he can feel it breathing inside his chest.

Patrick Schumacher has spent his life in service to the Order — a secret brotherhood of hunters who keep the peace between humanity and the creatures that would devour it. He is disciplined, precise, and cold in the way only the deeply...

Lorenzo Castellani has been don of the Castellani family for thirteen years. He has hired his rutmates through the same vetted agency for ten of them.

Elia Greco has been working for the agency for two years. He is good at his job, careful with his clients, and unfailingly clean about the boundary between his body and his life.

He has, in those...