A Shadow Of Two Faces

Corin has never belonged—too human for the elves, too elven for the humans. In the port city of Quayrest, he is a shadow among the crowds, living in the space between stares that call him “freak” and fists that remind him he doesn’t fit. But when a violent encounter awakens something hidden inside him—reflexes too sharp, strength too precise—Corin realises his outcast blood carries more than shame. It carries power. Dangerous power. Now, hunted by those who see him as a threat and courted by factions who would use him as a weapon, Corin must walk the knife’s edge between the two halves of himself. To survive, he must decide: is he the boy who hides in the crowd, or the shadow that stares back with another face?