When poverty is a death sentence, you rewrite the rules.

Adam Hood works a dead-end job at an insurance company, trapped in the same poverty that killed his mother. By night, he's Noctirian - a shadow-wielding thief with one goal: escape at any cost.

Armed with his father's mysterious amulet and powers over darkness itself, Adam navigates Ebon City's criminal underworld, playing by his own rules. No innocents hurt. No mercy for those who stand in his way.

But when a promising job turns out to be a setup, Adam finds himself being hunted. The Secret Kings, the city's most dangerous criminal organization, want their relic back. And the price of failure is worse than death.

The streets belong to those ruthless enough to take them. Adam must seek out the secrets of his father's amulet, find allies among those who can't be trusted, and risk everything he's built. Because in a world where heroes have failed, sometimes the supervillain path is the only way to win.

A gritty, intelligent take on the superhero genre that asks: what happens when the system is so broken that crime becomes the only rational choice?

Perfect for fans of morally complex antiheroes, such as Vicious by V.E. Schwab and Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes.

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• Publication Date: December 8, 2025
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• Print Length: 309 Pages
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