Synopsis
In the gaslamp-lit metropolis of Nocturne, where magic is harvested from the blood of beasts, Elian hides in the shadows, using his past life's surgical knowledge to treat the poor. But when the city's most feared warlord, Kaelen Voss, kidnaps him to cure a cursed wound that defies all magic, Elian is forced into a high-stakes game of medical brinkmanship. As a rival tyrant threatens to consume the city, Elian realizes that the only cure for Kaelen's rot is a sacrifice that will leave one of them a king and the other a ghost.
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