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Her duty is to die. The war she wages is a lonely one. Winning it seems impossible. So why does she keep fighting?


As a Hunter, Laviv’s life has one purpose: kill every creature that roams the forest at night, or die trying. It is the only goal she has ever known, and still, hopelessness chases her through the darkness—the one within her, the most brutal one. 
Because if she can neither win against the monsters plaguing her world, nor the ones filling her nightmares with the realization that her duty is slowly killing her, what is she even fighting for?


When history repeats itself and Laviv’s past catches up with her, leading to an innocent boy getting caught in the crossfire, she stands before a choice: she can either continue on her path to leave nothing but pain and regret behind, or take responsibility once in her life and become a teacher for a boy who is unlikely to survive without her.


Trying to keep her new apprentice alive, Laviv realizes that not only the changes inside their organization are endangering the boy, but that also her own past is now catching up to both of them. 
Something brews deep within the belly of the beast, and when Laviv is finally ready to end the year-long feud with the man who has taken more from her than any monster ever had, she realizes that leaving her old life behind will be harder than expected. Because he is not only her biggest weakness, but also the only person who could help Laviv understand a danger she hadn’t known they were all in.


Betrayal simmers under the surface, and Laviv must decide who to trust, what to believe, and what it is that’s not only worth dying—but living for.