Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four.
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Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond.
Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.
They're both trying to find their way through life, and both trying to let go of their pasts and become their own people.
But, of course, they face countless challenges along the way, some that are far too difficult to forget.
Angello, a young man who is known to many politicians and government officials in his country, suddenly gets the job of a lifetime, that will allow his siblings to have proper lives and him to finally live a somewhat normal life. Only problem is, it'd be a complete nightmare working it.
Meanwhile Zachary hopes to move away from his controlling parents and a lifetime of stress, trying to escape his manipulative father and jealous brother.
Will Zachary end up a copy of his father?
Will Angello get over his past?
Is everything really how it appears on the outside?
Wattys winner
