Haven: Bloodborn: A Fast-Paced Dark Fantasy of Magic, Survival, and Shadowfay

by D.C. Akers

A boy with a blade that remembers death.
A sister whose life hangs by a thread.
A world where the dark is no longer waiting… it is listening.

When Sam Dalcome crosses into Haven, nothing about his life remains ordinary. Magic is real. Monsters are real. And the war his family once fought never truly ended. Now, with his sister Sarah slipping beyond saving, Sam is thrust into a desperate mission deep within the most feared place in existence—Shadowfay.

Guided by whispers, hunted by creatures that should not exist, and burdened by a weapon that has a will of its own, Sam and his closest ally, Travis, must survive a journey that no one has ever returned from. The deeper they go, the more the darkness begins to change them… to study them… to learn their names.

Because in Shadowfay, the enemy is not just what hunts you.

It is what knows you.

And the closer they get to the truth behind the Abyon—the only thing that can save Sarah—the more they realize something far worse is unfolding. A hidden plan. A buried secret. A power that has been waiting, patient and unseen, for them to arrive.

To save one life, they may have to lose everything.

And in Haven… nothing comes without a cost.

77 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 16, 2026

About the author

D.C. Akers was born in Texas, and after spending several years working in accounting, he began to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a writer. Like many who enjoy the fantasy genre, Akers started reading it as an adolescent. He was fascinated with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He currently enjoys reading works by Dean Koontz, Heather Brewer, J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, and John Grisham.