
by Auren Van Eden
No one knows who the Pale Huntress truly is. Some believe she's a guardian. Others call her a demon.Most simply pray they never see her. Blackvale is a city built upon old graves and older lies. Every night its people hide behind locked doors while the horrors beyond the Veil hunt anything foolish enough to wander alone. The Spectral Knights fight to keep humanity alive, believing they understand the darkness they face. They're wrong.As impossible creatures begin appearing in daylight and entire districts vanish into silence, young Spectral knight Alexander Lukas and a Far East Bounty Hunter named Grace, is drawn into an investigation that shatters everything they believe. At the center of it all stands the mysterious ashen-haired Huntress whose existence defies both time, faith, and reason. Together they'll uncover forgotten civilizations, ancient rivalries, and a truth hidden since the beginning of the world. Some monsters are born. Some are created. Some have been waiting thousands of years for someone to remember their name.
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