Hinato was very familiar with loss. First, when his father walked out with nothing but a suitcase. Again, when his mother died, leaving him to patch together a life that felt more broken every year. He learned to adapt, to survive—but no matter how hard he tried, everything he loved slipped away.
So when he arrived in another world where the dead walked—not only walked but writhed, groaned, and wore the faces of people he once knew—he realized the strange dream he’d had earlier that week wasn’t just another nightmare. It had been a warning. Hinato feared loss more than anything. And in an instant, his whole world became unrecognizable. But in this shattered world, he discovered something terrible and miraculous: he was immune to the infection that turned people into hollow doppelgangers.
Now he must uncover why he was dragged here, what this immunity means, and how it connects to the “silly story” whispered to children at night in this place called Kassandra.