Hollow Lovers

For Kian Parks, survival has always been a fight. Sold at 13 into the brutal underground arenas, his life became a cycle of pain, blood, and cybernetic augmentation-all at the whim of Kyros Systems, the mega-corporation that bankrolls the fight circuits. His escape at 18 was a fluke, a miracle delivered by Emily, a young rebel fighting to dismantle the very system that enslaved him. But the scars remain-on his body, where steel and flesh meet with jagged edges, and in his mind, where the lines between man and machine blur.

Now, Kian is an enforcer for the Shattered Saints, a gang of outcast teens trying to carve a fragile sense of family in a world that chews up and spits out the weak. He trains the younger members to fight and protects them from the city's predators, but his true goal is vengeance