Bloodlaced

<p><strong>Kanjin hardly view their servants as human. Even less so when they are different. Asagi is different. Both a man and a woman.</strong></p><p>In the wake of his failure to protect a boy he saw as a son from their abusive master Asagi is sold into the house of a young nobleman Mahiro who is the opposite of everything Asagi has ever known—gentle kind and generous.</p><p>Mahiro bonds with Asagi and their friendship blooms into a deep and profound love. But when Asagi is poisoned out of jealousy Mahiro reveals himself to be youkai a demon who feeds on blood and he has no choice but to turn Asagi to save his life.<br />Asagi awakes reborn strong and eternally youthful. But the price for Asagi’s new life is high.</p><p>The blood of the innocent.</p><p>Just as Asagi’s trust in Mahiro falters the boy he failed to protect now a man reappears.</p><p>New master same threat.</p><p>With both a literal and proverbial monster at the door Asagi must decide what it means to be human to protect what he loves most.</p>