He came to study monsters. He never planned to fall for one. Cal has spent his life collecting stories. An archivist obsessed with documenting the Changed world on its own terms, he wants to understand the settlements, cultures, and people emerging from a civilization that no longer fits neatly into human and monster. Then a gray Dren walks past him in Harrow. Cal follows. Obviously for research. Korr is enormous, stone-skinned, intimidating, and entirely too amused by the human who keeps appearing behind him.
What begins as curiosity becomes a journey neither man expected-and an attraction Cal becomes increasingly incapable of explaining away as professional interest. Korr isn't a specimen. He isn't an entry in Cal's atlas. And he definitely isn't supposed to become the man Cal chooses. But the Changed world is still dangerous. Old secrets haven't disappeared simply because people survived them, and places like Flint Ridge prove that some of the worst things done to the Changed were deliberately buried.
As Cal and Korr uncover what remains, Cal has to decide what his life's work is really supposed to preserve. Information?History?Or the people whose stories were nearly erased?Korr has already made his choice. Now he's waiting for Cal to make his.
He came to study monsters. He never planned to fall for one. Cal has spent his life collecting stories. An archivist obsessed with documenting the Changed world on its own terms, he wants to understand the settlements, cultures, and people emerging from a civilization that no longer fits neatly into human and monster. Then a gray Dren walks past him in Harrow. Cal follows. Obviously for research. Korr is enormous, stone-skinned, intimidating, and entirely too amused by the human who keeps appearing behind him.
What begins as curiosity becomes a journey neither man expected-and an attraction Cal becomes increasingly incapable of explaining away as professional interest. Korr isn't a specimen. He isn't an entry in Cal's atlas. And he definitely isn't supposed to become the man Cal chooses. But the Changed world is still dangerous. Old secrets haven't disappeared simply because people survived them, and places like Flint Ridge prove that some of the worst things done to the Changed were deliberately buried.
As Cal and Korr uncover what remains, Cal has to decide what his life's work is really supposed to preserve. Information?History?Or the people whose stories were nearly erased?Korr has already made his choice. Now he's waiting for Cal to make his.