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They were raised to be eaten. They were mutated to be a feast.
Lia once believed Glory Bell was a paradise, waiting for a loving family to adopt her. But the "adoption" she dreamed of only landed her in the nightmare of experimental labs in Lambda 7214. Made into a living weapon, seventeen-year-old Lia was built with razor-sharp perception and a devastating biological flaw: an engineered body rapidly burning toward systemic collapse. When a violent facility breach hurls her alone into the untamed demon wilderness, survival becomes a race against her own failing nerves.
Then she meets Sonju.
Towering, masked, and deadly, the ancient warrior pulls her from the jaws of wild scavengers, binds her wounds, and feeds her by his fire. But his mercy is the deadliest trap of all. Bound by an ancient religious dogma, Sonju refuses to touch farmed cattle. He is keeping Lia alive for a single, terrifying purpose: to restore the sacred tradition of hunting wild, free humans.
Trapped between a body on the brink of lethal failure and an abstemious hunter waiting patiently for her to mature, Lia must navigate an alien world where every act is a calculated investment in her eventual slaughter.
In a land where freedom is only given so the chase can begin, how do you escape to survive?