Ethan is just a boy from a quiet town at the edge of nowhere — until the headache comes.
What starts as a dull ache behind his eyes becomes something else entirely: red veins crawling beneath skin, eyes emptying of everything human, the people he's known his whole life turning on each other, on him, on themselves. Ethan doesn't gain power. He doesn't learn to control it. He becomes a walking catastrophe — and every person who loves him pays the price for standing too close.
Deep in the forest, in a hut built from bones and bent branches, something ancient has been waiting. Watching. Smiling. Because it knows what Ethan doesn't — the headache was never a curse placed on him.
It was a door opened inside him. And something has been walking through it ever since.
Read carefully. Stay close. And whatever you do — don't ignore the pain behind your eyes.
