Hell's Favorite Mistake

In a universe built on the rigid, cold perfection of the Architect, Rowan is the ultimate mistake.

A dying boy with a ticking clock in his chest, Rowan has spent his life existing in the margins, waiting for the end to come. But the end doesn't arrive as a sickness-it arrives as Sylus, the King of the Underworld. A being of ancient shadows and terrifying power, Sylus doesn't see a broken, fragile human. He sees a variable. An anomaly. A spark that could set the heavens ablaze.

Now, Rowan is a fugitive from the Host-the celestial architects determined to purge his existence and restore their sterile order. As they flee to the Echo City, a fracturing graveyard of dead memories and lost potential, a war erupts that threatens to consume reality itself.

Sylus has a plan to break the board, to lure the divine into the dark and force a reckoning. But Rowan is burning at both ends. Caught between a King who wants to use him as a weapon and a Heaven that wants to erase him, Rowan is forced to choose: fade away into the silence, or embrace the chaos and become the most beautiful mistake the cosmos has ever seen.

One is a King of the Abyss. The other is a boy out of time.

Together, they are about to teach the stars exactly what happens when you try to crush the fire