The Secrets of Jane

<p><strong>I'm a disciplined man Jane. I can stay here for as long as you need before the lesson sinks in that you don't run from me while in my charge.</strong></p><p> </p><p>¤ ¤ ¤</p><p> </p><p>My village is aflame and a deadly legend becomes my captor.</p><p> </p><p>I'm to appear before the most elite faction of mercenaries and warlords commanded to answer for a crime they refuse to explain. Even if my only guess for why they want me is wrong they cannot have me. I've sworn to never return to Skull's Row home to thieves and killers; the graveyard of my childhood.</p><p> </p><p>He plans to unbury every memory until my soul is stripped bare: Soren my captor is strangely fascinated by me. By what I hide. Of the scars I have.</p><p> </p><p>I'm unwillingly drawn to him. To his brutality. He harbors the same viciousness that coats my veins. He even seems persistent in taking me for himself...</p><p> </p><p>He'll either be my reckoning or my undoing.</p>