The Damned Heir eBook
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Matic Rožič has spent a century learning how to make himself safe.
Half vampyr, half demon, and heir to a mountain his family has held for four generations, Matic was raised beneath one rule: whatever lives under his skin must remain controlled. A bracelet suppresses his shadows. Discipline keeps his hunger contained. Obedience keeps the powerful Rožič name intact.
Then one public act of vengeance shatters everything restraint was supposed to protect.
His inheritance is placed under council scrutiny. A Munadi overseer begins documenting every failure. And Mirella Corvino, the one woman Matic has no right to want, belongs to the rival house helping tighten the leash around his throat. Their stolen letters, secret meetings, and dangerous hunger for one another can survive only as long as no one discovers how far they have already crossed the line.
But something older than their families is stirring beneath the Rožič mountain.
Impossible flowers are growing beside ancient Orc wards. Scouts are mapping the mine approaches. A dragon’s covenant has outlived the truth behind it, and generations of Rožič men have inherited a mountain without ever understanding what they were actually entrusted to keep.
Searching for answers takes Matic into territory where his blood, his title, and his family's power mean nothing. There, stripped of every advantage that has protected him for a century, he discovers that the history beneath his inheritance is far uglier than the one he was taught.
And so is the truth beneath his own skin.
Matic returns home carrying a hunger he cannot control, a power no one ever taught him to understand, and the knowledge that everyone who has ever loved him has answered his darkness the same way: contain it, quiet it, make it bearable.
Everyone except Thanedric.
The mysterious half-blood asks for nothing. He offers no ultimatum and makes no demand. He simply looks at the power everyone else fears and treats it as something worth understanding.
For a man who has spent one hundred years behind a leash, that may be the most dangerous temptation of all.
