New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us back to the astonishing world of the Dark-Hunters with a hero misunderstood by many, but most of all by himself. Born before man recorded time, I lived for thousands of years believing myself to be something I'm not. Lied to and betrayed by gods, Daimons, and Dark-Hunters, I've struggled to find my way in a world where I've been cursed since the moment I was ripped from my mother and planted into the womb of an innocent woman who thought me her son. Trained as a slayer and predator, I learned to fit in and stay low, to become a tool for evil. Until I was sent to kill the one woman I couldn't. My hesitation cost her her life. Or so I thought. In an act of betrayal that makes all the others pale in comparison, I've learned that this world is an illusion and that my Phoebe still lives.