After two years in captivity by the very organization that enhanced him, Garan Traverse is finally free, but still a prisoner to his own mind.

The darkness inside him grows stronger each day, demanding blood. To keep it at bay, he turns his hunger on those who do evil to others. But Atropis—the shadow empire that made him what he is wants him back. And now, a ghost from his past threatens to drag him even deeper into the fight.

How long can Garan hold the monster inside before it consumes him—or before Atropis does?