Beneath The Dark Flames (On Hold)

A friend, lost to black flames.
A mother, burnt to ashes.
A brother, with empty skin.
A girl, whose heart he'd broken.
A golden pocket watch, with an expiration date.

These things have haunted Cale Schatten from the moment he awoke halfway around the world from his former home of the Academy, bruised, bloody – but breathing.
And damned.
The world around him was burning – and they didn’t even know it yet. The Order at his home, broken. The Abnormals, rouges. And a new danger on the horizon, hell-bent on revenge and lusting for blood.
Shattered promises, sleepless nights and cold embraces – the light left to the world that Cale had once sworn to protect has gone out; and he is lost.
But a salvation lies in the darkness…
And to gain it, he must break rules, push limits and destroy the last ties to the humanity he’d lost from the moment he’d slipped his soul – the old Cale is no more. Something darker lies within.
Racing against slipping time, dodging enemies who want his head and the Order which he’d once served, Cale has but one goal in mind… but even that is questioned when he uncovers more about a past hidden from him, about a family he’d never known existed – and a legacy struck down as a curse.

Bonds are tested. Friendships are forged. Loves are lost.
Nothing, and no one, is ever as they seem.