Yuu has never known what it means to feel safe. Raised in silence, shaped by pain, and hardened by a childhood that gave him nothing but scars, he has spent his entire life perfecting the art of disappearing. No attachments. No trust. No weakness. But some people refuse to let you disappear. A...

Before he became a name spoken in fear, Veyren was just a boy found on a road and given a family. Before the World Refused is the story of the years that made him, and the brothers, the love, and the single unbearable night that unmade everything. A prequel side story to Only Ruin Follows The M...