Born in blood and shaped by cruelty, Sinera was never given a choice. Sold by her parents for five silver coins, she’s ripped from innocence and forged into a weapon by a brutal order known only as the Hellborn Slayers—a twisted military cult that raises children to kill, maim, and obey.
Survival means becoming something else. Something harder. Sharper. Monstrous.
Sinera endures it all—the indoctrination, the ritual that binds her to demonic power, the execution of those who once called her family. Her name is legend among the Slayers. A whisper of steel and shadow. A girl with no scars because her body heals too fast, but her soul? It’s carved full of ghosts.
When freedom finally claws its way into reach, she takes it, stepping beyond the Slayers’ reach into a world that’s no softer, no safer, but finally her own.
Except freedom has teeth. And so does the past.
Hunted by old masters, haunted by what she’s done, and dragged into a conflict darker than any blade she’s wielded, Sinera must decide what it means to be more than a weapon. Can you reclaim a name after it’s been erased? Can you love again after burning every soft thing inside you?
With war rising and shadows hunting her soul, Sinera doesn’t want to be a hero.
She just refuses to be anyone’s monster but her own.