by liacht
He was the end of all things. Now, he is only a memory.Lacht, the Dread Sovereign of the North, ruled the Shadow Palace with an iron fist and a core of pure Void. But betrayal has a long reach. Poisoned by his own Council and cast out of his realm, Lacht falls like a dying star into the one place a demon cannot survive: The Fairy Realm.Stripped of his gates and hunted by the terrifying Shadow Hounds, Lacht’s only hope lies in the hands of Anya—a Saint-Devil healer with a soul as bright as his is dark. To survive, Lacht must do the unthinkable: fuse his Void with her Life Qi.The Nine Gates are broken. The Sovereign has fallen. But the stars are most dangerous right before they go dark.
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