Jiovanni Ward’s world is falling apart. First, his father is murdered. Then, his mother develops a brain tumor that is slowly killing her, and while she lays dying, his blood begins to burn. Sworn by his father to seek out the guild no sooner than his sixteenth birthday and pressured by his mother to not seek it out at all, Jiovanni must deal with the growing pressures within himself and within his family. His eldest sister Odessa is determined to remain under Hestia’s Protection and graduate from college. The next eldest, Hunter, is a Ganami under the protection of the guild. Unfortunately, his leg is broken and he is unable to work. Cordell shows no interest in joining the guild although he is old enough and Elaina, the youngest, must be protected at all costs.

With Odessa and Cordel’s refusal to help and Hunter’s inability to work, Jiovanni feels as if the entire survival of his family is falling on his fifteen year old shoulders. And he burns. So he does the only thing an irrational teenager would do in his place: he steals his brother’s guild card and goes to work. It is some months later when he has discovered who had his papa killed and who would have him killed and why he should run for the guild as fast as his legs can carry him that he finds himself in a position that he isn’t sure he will make it out of alive, but he does know one thing. He is in love. And the one he loves keeps his blood from burning and that is a goal worth living for no matter the hell he must survive to get back to his side.

I understand this story contains adult situations and that I may find some of the material offensive.

I want to read the story in spite of it.

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