Elias Thorne has died fourteen times. Every time he draws his last breath, he wakes up in the same cold, damp cellar of the Thorne Estate, reborn into a new body grown in a vat of ritualistic filth. His “family” calls it a blessing—a way to preserve the lineage of the Great Unspoken. But Elias remembers the screams. He remembers the taste of the silver blade that harvests his soul every twenty years to feed the Matriarch. In his fifteenth life, the ritual goes wrong. Elias retains the memories of all fourteen deaths at once, and he realizes he isn’t just a sacrifice—he is a vessel for something that is finally starting to wake up.
