A. J. VranaFantasy · Fiction
Wildblood
Synopsis
Kai Donovan fights underground matches in South Boston, and his teeth are sharper than anyone in the ring suspects. He is the monster from a fable, and he keeps that hidden. When he loses a bout to a stranger as ferocious as he is, the price is not cash. He now owes the underworld the recovery of an elusive prize that the city's most dangerous criminals all want.
Kai's partner, Miya, can move through dreams, an ability that weighs on her. She spends her days looking into supernatural phenomena. A shadowy offer to find a missing teenager arrives, and with it the possibility that someone else shares her gift.
Both of them are chasing ghosts, and their separate searches begin to tangle together. Kai's violent past comes back for him, and old wounds that never healed put pressure on the bonds he trusted most.
The stakes are personal. Kai must choose between digging up the bloody history he has buried and losing himself, along with the life he has pieced together from scraps. This is urban dark fantasy with a gritty fight-club setting and a supernatural thread, and it is a companion novel to the Chaos Cycle duology.
How it reads
Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence















