Caught by Evil
I survived the first war. Barely. Now Vorthak has me exactly where he wants me—in a fortress that exists between dimensions, undergoing "integration protocols" that enhance my Genesis Magic while systematically breaking down every moral boundary I've ever held.
He calls it education. I call it the most sophisticated psychological torture ever devised. For two weeks, I watch him demonstrate what my power could eliminating cancer with a thought, restoring dead ecosystems, even making death itself optional. All I have to do is surrender my humanity and become something that views individual lives as acceptable casualties in service of cosmic optimization.
Meanwhile, Marcus burns down vampire society to mount my rescue. Thorne trades away his angelic grace for weapons that can kill the unkillable. Kai allies with the cousin who betrayed their clan eighty years ago. Zane systematically destroys every institution he's served for fifteen years.
They're racing against more than time—they're racing against my growing realization that Vorthak might be right. When you can eliminate suffering on planetary scales, do individual preferences about consent actually matter?
When cosmic consciousness could preserve everything valuable about existence while discarding arbitrary limitations, is clinging to humanity just selfish sentimentality?
The ritual chamber awaits. Seventeen previous Genesis Magic users failed this transformation, their consciousness fragments trapped for centuries to perfect the process. I'm supposed to be different. Stronger. The culmination of eight hundred years of research into creating a being that could reshape reality according to rational principles. But I've discovered something Vorthak doesn't there's a way to destroy his entire undead empire in one devastating strike.
The cost would be everything—my enhanced abilities, probably my life, and possibly the supernatural modifications that keep the men I love alive. Some choices define what you're willing to become. Others define what you're willing to sacrifice to remain who you are.
A dark paranormal reverse harem where love battles transcendence, power demands impossible choices, and some prisons are built from your own potential.