Melded

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>There's nowhere to run inside your own minds.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Simon Holiday doesn't want to be a spy but there are worse things than a guilty conscience. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What's selling your soul to one beast if it staves off another?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His work has found him at the center of a new world translating temple texts alongside the mysterious and outgoing Gen; a man whose body and mysteries Simon can't turn his mind from. Even if that attraction threatens everything he's there for.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gen is too busy running from his fate to fall in love but it's happening anyway.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> A former acolyte of his temple's hidden power he's desperate to become anyone else even if he knows it's impossible. When Simon is invited into the temple's most sacred ceremony Gen decides this is his chance to find balance between who he needs to be and who he wants to be with.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until the warmonger Jorel rises to power taking the core of the temple for himself: </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Haliz Fundir</em> a tree with the ability to meld bodies and minds into one</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. A boon in the right hands and a terrifying weapon in his Jorel just needs one final secret to control its dark power. A secret only Gen holds.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A secret Gen <em>uses</em> melding with Simon to slip through Jorel's grasp.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now melded into one body and mind Simon and Gen are forced to face the truths of their pasts and the gravity of their present. With Jorel's extremist followers a deranged scientist and a pack of deformed monsters hunting them down they're running out of options allies and time as </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the horror of <em>Haliz Fundir</em> awakens once again. </strong></p><p><br></p>