In the rain-slicked underworld of 1994 Millhaven, debts aren't paid in currency?they are paid in blood, and loyalty is bought at the end of a barrel. But some sins outlive the men who committed them.
Detective Marco Ferraro thought he was simply building a airtight case against the iron-fisted syndicate running the port district. He was dead wrong. His execution was clinical, swift, and absolute?leaving behind only a ruined home, a bleeding legacy, and a four-month-old infant hidden in the dark, breathing in the suffocating scent of cedar and slaughter.
Taken in by the rival Moretti empire, that boy didn't grow up to be a victim. Raised in the cold shadows of power, he was conditioned to become the perfect, calculating weapon: a prince of a criminal kingdom who can read human souls like simple blueprints. He slept through the slaughterhouse as a child; now, he rules it.
Thirty-two years later, the executioner has returned. The old syndicate is creeping back into the city, unaware that the infant they left behind is now the Don running the board. But as the turf war ignites and blood fills the gutters, an ancient, unholy rot begins to surface beneath the cracked concrete. Dante Moretti isn't just fighting for his territory anymore. He is stepping directly into a trap built on three decades of terrifying, otherworldly secrets.
