Perrin Shade's family has worked for the phoenix shifters of Mont de Leucoy for hundreds of years. It was assumed he would do the same, but as his thirtieth birthday approaches, the restlessness he's kept hidden grows. He only ever worked in the castle, and he's never had a chance to explore the world. But there is a reason his family sought sanctuary in the kingdom...he is the kind of paranormal being that many want to forget exists. The kinds that even paranormals hunted. 

A ghoul. 

Oliver has spent the last ten years being told that he is a danger to others. That the Coven will hunt and kill him if they find him, and that his parents abandoned him. Now, after being pulled out of the only life he knew, where he felt safe, he is told it was all a lie. That his brothers have been searching for him for centuries, and he is a phoenix shifter.

His brothers claim to know him, but how can they when he doesn't know himself? 

They have their history, their duties, and their expectations. He should embrace discovering who he is, but all he wants to do is leave before the weight of the past crushes him. 

The only person who treats him as if he isn't broken is the castle handyman, Perrin. 

Can a man who is a monster help the man who is convinced he is a monster learn how to live and love?