Drowning in bitter regrets, bad decisions, and cheap liquor, Lucas Rayns is already a broken shell of a man long before his world completely unravels. He gets by surviving brutal pub brawls, blissfully unaware of the ancient predator sleeping in his DNA-until archaeologist Virginia Greene digs up the ruins at Castle Kreeg and reopens the gate. The moment the portal crackles back to life, the ancestral link activates, violently awakening the beast in Lucas's veins and giving his long-buried personal demons a set of razor-sharp teeth. Left nursing a catastrophic hangover alongside the horrifying carnage of his first transformation, Lucas begins to learn the history of his bloodline. As ancient nightmares spill through the open threshold into modern-day England, he's left with a terrible choice... Accept the charge to protect the heart of Geylen or Embrace the rage of the beast and lose his humanity.
