"Give me life within you, and I will give you vengeance." Betrayed and left for dead, his family murdered, rage is the only force keeping Janis alive. But it alone won't give him the strength to avenge his family. When an alien presence offers him the strength to hunt down the murderers, he feels he has no choice but to accept. The creature fulfills its promise, granting him horrific powers that can decimate his foes. But at what cost? Every time he gives in to its hunger and feeds it the souls of his enemies, he loses a bit of himself with it. For now, it’s a price he must pay. The question is, how long before the cost is too high? Will he even know when he has no more of himself to give? Janis goes from prince assassin to fugitive sorcerer as he hunts the people who killed his family. He'll battle mercenaries, cultists, gods, and wizards in a magic devastated world, unraveling a conspiracy that goes far beyond his family’s dark fate, one that threatens everyone in the Shattered World of Urias…