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While exploring the ruins of an abandoned medieval village in Portugal, a lone wanderer accidentally breaks an ancient stone seal buried beneath a collapsed chapel—and awakens something that has been sleeping beneath the mountains for nearly six hundred years. Before he can figure out what the hell he’s done, he’s rescued from a creature made entirely of shadow by Garrick Vale, a massive, battle-scarred man who looks somewhere in his late forties but casually admits he was born in 1431. Garrick is one of the last Wardens, warriors cursed with unnaturally long lives so they can guard the boundary between the human world and a hidden realm of monsters, forgotten gods, and dangerous magic. Unfortunately, breaking the seal has somehow bound the wanderer to the mysterious Hollow King imprisoned on the other side—and now every supernatural creature that wants the King released is hunting him. Garrick reluctantly takes the wanderer across Europe searching for the remaining seals, teaching him how to survive creatures he previously thought existed only in folklore, while the wanderer discovers the magical bond has given him abilities of his own. Their combative partnership gradually becomes something much more intimate, especially when the gruff, fiercely protective Garrick realizes his centuries-long curse might finally be breakable. There’s just one problem: the prophecy Garrick has spent hundreds of years protecting contains a final line he deliberately keeps from the wanderer—the Hollow King can only return when …