"You should be thankful the less they think of you, because the less they make of you, the less they'll try to take. " Algernon Black is the most infamous eighteen-year-old known throughout his world for a prophecy that would make him a god if only he sacrificed the one he loved most. Downcast and disheartened, Algernon never paid the rumors much mind until the dazzling tenderness of a shining young girl forever changed him. Now Algernon must fight against his own emotions and the weight of the world's expectations for the sake of his own happiness as a budding war has his name in the center of it all and anyone near him in the line of danger. *Explicit sexual and violent content*