The blood no longer sleeps.
After resisting the entity that watches her from within, Liora learns to wield the hunger running beneath her skin. Every mark on her body remembers a life before hers—one filled with power, devotion, and ruin.
Under Shen’s relentless discipline, she learns to deny what desires her. To close her blood. To feed on memory without surrendering to it.
But each refusal only draws more attention.
The ancient woman who once devoured her entire bloodline now calls to her—soft as breath, sharp as teeth.
She remembers Liora.
She claims Liora was hers first.
And she wants her back.
Fragments of inherited memory show Liora a terrible truth:
She once knelt at that golden gaze, bound in blood and desire.
She once belonged.
Liora refuses.
But refusal is only the first chain.
As echoes of the past spill into the present, shadows invade the sanctuary, drawn to her awakening. Shen forces her into a forbidden rite—binding hunger to her will, carving refusal into flesh.
Magic
Dark Fantasy
Supernatural
Curse
Psychological
Chosenone
Identity
Rebellion
Forbidden Love
Audiobook details
GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, General Fiction
Length58 mins
Publish dateOct 30, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part 1 — Rewritten
4Part 3
2Part 2
5Part 3.2
3Part 2.2
About the author
David Hugo
David Hugo is a speculative fiction author exploring emotion, recursion, and desire through surreal worlds. His works blend cyberpunk, spirituality, and psychological decay, inviting readers to experience the intimate architecture of consciousness.View all audiobooks by David Hugo