When her sister vanished ten years ago, Sarah's world fell apart. Now, after years of silence, she's finally ready to start over, a new city, a new job, and maybe even a new beginning. Then she meets Umar, charming, kind, and unexpectedly familiar. For the first time in years, Sarah begins to feel alive again. But strange coincidences start to follow her. Faces from the past resurface. Whispers of her sister's name begin to echo in the most unexpected places. As Sarah's new life unravels, she's forced to ask herself one question: What if the past she's been running from is the one that's been waiting for her all along?

"Monsters aren't born... they're awakened." In a world guarded by Wardens and haunted by Abyssals, power means everything. After tragedy tears his family apart, Kairo Yanoen, a weak and timid dropout, finds himself hunted by assassins sent by a mysterious organization. Cornered, broken, and drenched in blood-something inside him snaps. He awakens Soul Bane, a cursed ability that lets him steal the powers of those he kills. But every soul he takes whispers in his mind... dragging him closer to madness. Saved by a rogue Warden named Gojo Enlita, Kairo is thrown into a brutal world of betrayal, monsters, and hidden truths about his father - the man who once protected the world, but lost himself to insanity. Now, Kairo must master the darkness inside him before it consumes everything he loves. > "When the weak awaken... the world trembles."