ASHES OF HOLLOWMERE

ASHES OF HOLLOWMERE They came for a village. They left a weapon. Dolores Atrox wanted nothing more than a quiet life — his father's forge, his sister's laughter, the girl he was too slow to tell how he felt. Then a rogue faction of vampires burned Hollowmere to nothing in a single night, took his family, and left him alive only long enough to turn into the very thing that destroyed everything he loved. He didn't ask for this. He doesn't know why he was chosen. All he knows is a name whispered before the fire took the rest of his world: Vane the Unbroken. Now Dolores walks a world he no longer belongs to — hunted by the Vampire Courts as an unregistered abomination, hunting the men who made him one, and slowly learning that the hardest part of vengeance isn't the killing. It's staying someone worth becoming while he does it. A dark fantasy of grief, rage, and the price of survival — with a secret buried in the very first person who shows him kindness after the fire. --- Content notes: graphic violence, character death, mature themes. Romance developing slowly — nothing explicit.