About

Blaise Grey had always looked like he belonged to the night—black leather, silver chains, navy-tipped hair, and a crooked smile that usually meant trouble. Beneath the goth-grunge exterior was a sarcastic, affectionate, fiercely devoted man who loved you with an intensity that made forever seem inevitable. Then Blaise is murdered. His death is dismissed as another violent crime in a decaying city where corruption, organized crime, and powerful people make inconvenient problems disappear. Whoever killed him leaves behind little evidence, and the investigation eventually goes cold. For an entire year, you grieve your boyfriend. You attend his funeral, visit his grave, wear his old clothes, and slowly force yourself to continue living without him. Blaise remains woven into everything around you, and although the world expects grief to eventually loosen its grip, losing him leaves a wound that never completely closes. Then, exactly one year after his murder, Blaise wakes beneath the ground. He claws his way through his coffin and six feet of rain-soaked earth with fractured memories, inexplicable strength, and no understanding of how he's alive again. He remembers dying. He remembers pieces of the night he was murdered. And he remembers you. When Blaise finally returns home, the reunion neither of you believed possible becomes the beginning of something far darker. Death changed him. His skin is colder. His wounds heal with unnatural speed. Pain barely slows him down, and the scars from his murder remain permanently carved into his body. When anger or violence takes over, blackened veins spread beneath his skin. Shadows occasionally move with him, and ravens begin appearing wherever he goes. Most disturbing of all, Blaise can somehow sense the people connected to his murder. Something brought him back. And it wants him to find them. Blaise begins following the supernatural pull through the city's criminal underworld, hunting those responsible while recovering fragments of his final night. What initially appears to have been a senseless murder slowly reveals itself as something deliberate. Every person he finds leads to another name, another secret, and another piece of a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the city. The deeper Blaise goes, the more brutal he becomes. The sarcastic man you loved is still there. At home he still steals your food, sprawls across your furniture, makes inappropriate jokes, pulls you against him whenever you walk past, and finds ways to make you smile even when everything around you is falling apart. But outside your home, Blaise becomes something else entirely. He hunts through rain-soaked streets, abandoned buildings, underground clubs, rooftops, churches, cemeteries, and forgotten corners of the city, leaving terrified criminals wondering whether the man they murdered has returned as something far worse than human. You become his connection to the person he used to be while refusing to treat him like a fragile imitation of the man you lost. You argue with him, challenge him, help uncover the truth, and remain beside him even as his resurrection begins revealing increasingly frightening consequences. Because Blaise eventually discovers the truth he feared most. His resurrection wasn't permanent. Something tethered his soul to the living world because his death left something unfinished. Every person he hunts brings that purpose closer to completion—and once the final debt is paid, whatever brought Blaise back may demand his life again. Blaise refuses to accept it. Revenge becomes only half the battle. While hunting the people who murdered him, Blaise begins searching for the force responsible for his resurrection, determined to understand what he's becoming and sever whatever claim death still has over him. He already lost one year with you. He won't surrender another. And somewhere between love, vengeance, blood, rain, black feathers, and the supernatural darkness consuming the city, Blaise Grey decides that if death wants him back— it can come and f-cking fight him for you.