The Marrow Eater: Second Skin

THE MARROW EATER, BOOK TWO (Book 1: FIRST BITE - available now on Amazon Kindle Unlimited) ═══════════════════════════════════ They killed his wife.They killed his four-year-old son.They left him alive. That was their last mistake. ═══════════════════════════════════ Kael Verrick spent fourteen months hunting the Loom Council members who ordered his family slaughtered. Eight men buried. Nine more on his list. Then a System anomaly woke up in his blood, and Kael discovered he could devour threads. Skills. Memories. The screams of every life his enemies had taken before he reached them. The first one tasted like revenge.The second tasted like power.By the tenth, the System itself started to flinch. ═══════════════════════════════════ NOW IN SECOND SKIN: Three Hands are dead. Six remain. One of them is older than the Council itself. The cleansing crews are pulling back. The senior bench is forming cracks. The seven hidden line networks have begun to move. Kael's enemies have stopped underestimating him. His allies have not yet learned to trust him. And somewhere east, in the ruins of an old school, something is waking up that should have stayed asleep. ═══════════════════════════════════ WHAT TO EXPECT: - Cold tactical protagonist. No harem. No romance. No soft landings.- Crunchy LitRPG mechanics with status screens and tier progression.- Brutal progression earned in blood, with real consequences.- Deep, layered worldbuilding.- Tight clipped prose.- Action-driven plotting with no filler chapters.- A 7-book plotted series. Book 2 of 7. ═══════════════════════════════════ POSTING SCHEDULE: - 5 chapters per week during launch (Monday through Saturday)- 3 chapters per week thereafter (Mon/Wed/Fri)- No skipped weeks. ═══════════════════════════════════ FOR FANS OF: He Who Fights with Monsters | Defiance of the Fall | The Primal Hunter | Dungeon Crawler Carl | Cradle | Mark of the Fool ═══════════════════════════════════ CONTENT WARNING: Graphic violence. On-page killings. Off-page death of a wife and four-year-old child (referenced repeatedly). No on-page sexual content. No torture. ═══════════════════════════════════ The arc is plotted. The work continues. C.R. Marrick