He woke in a cell with a mark burned into his back and a sorceress who smiled like she already owned him. The realms are split by shadow and law-mortal and eldritch. Kael, a warrior from the dying edge of the old world, has been claimed by a sigil of thorns: a living brand that feeds on pain, pleasure, and surrender. To survive, he must submit to ancient rites and the woman who guides them-a sorceress named Lysith, whose every touch cuts deeper than the last. But the sigil is not just a gate between worlds. It's a hunger. And the more Kael resists, the more it consumes. As lust coils with power and ritual binds become bonds of something more, Kael must choose: Claim his power. Or be claimed by it.
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