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Gilliam thought he was entirely ordinary-just a young man surviving the harsh, sun-baked dust of Laingsburg. But when the Blood Moon rises, his peaceful life is shattered by an agonizing transformation. He isn't human. He isn't just a werewolf. He is the Blood Born, the first hybrid in centuries to simultaneously inherit the legendary powers of the Wolf, the Vampire, the Moon Born, and the celestial Star Born.
Driven from his home by a sudden, brutal onslaught of shadow monsters, Gilliam is forced into an uneasy alliance with the two most powerful supernatural rulers on the continent: Wilhelm, the fierce Werewolf King, and Verina, the ruthless Vampire Queen. Together with hidden tribes like the secretive Mamba Shifters, they must navigate a secret, high-tech supernatural city beneath Johannesburg and unlock the mysteries left behind by Gilliam's missing mother.
But secrets carry a deadly price. As the unified vanguard marches toward a final war on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, the true enemy emerges. The ancient dark forces they fought weren't trying to destroy the world-they were trying to break a lock.
Deep beneath the bedrock of the mountain, a colossal entity is waking up. A beast so terrifying that even the First Darkness fears its name. And as Gilliam's own flesh begins to warp, changing his eyes into a mismatched gaze of silver and crimson, he realizes the horrifying truth:
He isn't the savior. He is the key.
And the Jailer is coming.