Lucien Vaelthorne was born an orphan—forgotten, hungry, and armed with nothing but rage. Then the dark witch-master came. Cities crumbled. Villages vanished. And Lucien’s world burned to ash. Now, vengeance will forge him into something far darker than the boy he once was... and the night itself will learn to fear his name

Émeric Valois was once a humble sailor, a man of rough hands and honest labor—until his best friend, the wealthy merchant Lucien de Montclair, betrayed him. Consumed by jealousy over Émeric’s engagement to the beautiful Sophie de Laval, Lucien fabricated charges of treason, ensuring Émeric was thrown into the Bastille’s darkest cell to rot.

Cursed with eerie, demon-gifted eyes, he sees flashes of the past at crime scenes, visions so vivid he can force others to witness them—and confess. But when he reopens the **Black Hollow Case**, a decades-old mystery drenched in blood and whispers of the occult, his power betrays him. The visions twist, showing him glimpses of a hooded figure… one that stares back. Now, as Veil digs deeper, the line between hunter and hunted blurs. The truth is buried in the shadows, and his own eyes may be the key—or his doom.