One Hand Grants Life, One Hand Commands Death

Zane Sawyer was the last student of Credence Ward, and his training began when he was only three years old. The clipped account of his early life sets up a young man shaped by a demanding discipline from childhood. Its story turns on the mastery he gains through that long path of cultivation, a foundation that marks him as someone unlike those around him. The premise points toward a modern romance in which his hard-earned strength becomes the source of both his power and his reckoning.