Red-Eye

Some deals are made at the edge of desperation. Some prices are paid before you're old enough to understand what you're giving away.
Sunny is ten years old, an outcast in a world that has already decided what he's worth. His mother is dying. His sister is dying. And on the night he runs through a cursed forest to save them - hunted by forces older and crueler than anything he has a name for - he discovers that something ancient has been living inside him since birth. Something planted there deliberately. Something that powerful people are willing to kill for.
When a being of incomprehensible power steps out of the dark and offers him a choice - his loyalty, his body, his future, in exchange for the lives of the people he loves most - Sunny doesn't hesitate.
He says yes.
That yes will cost him everything.
And build him into something the world has never seen.
Red-Eye is the story of a boy born ordinary in a world that classifies human souls like currency - from the godlike to the expendable. It is the story of what happens when the expendable refuses to stay that way. Of shadow and sacrifice, of deals made in dark forests, of a child who loved his family so completely that he handed himself over to a monster to protect them - and what that monster made of him in return.
Somewhere between the boy who ran and the Shadow Lord he becomes, something was lost.
Red-Eye asks whether it was worth it.

For those who believe that the most dangerous thing in any world is not power -
but someone with nothing left to lose, and everything left to love.