The Ninth Awakens

By Brinda Phokeerdass

Born under a blood eclipse. Marked by sacrifice. Haunted by eight deaths he cannot remember.

In a world shattered by a forgotten cataclysm, Arya awakens to a life of endless labor in the Sanguine Mills—a hellscape of flesh, fire, and silence. But beneath his collarbone burns a mark, older than memory and carved in blood. When he defies the brutal order of his world, Arya unleashes a force buried within him—one that should not exist, and one the Demonimanus, twisted creatures of a dark past, will kill to silence.

As he flees across a ruined wasteland, pursued by monsters born of humanity's own corruption, Arya begins to uncover the truth: he is not just a boy running from his fate. He is the Ninth. The final vessel in a cycle of souls bound by ancient failure and eternal return. Each life before him has fallen. He may be the last.

But to awaken fully, Arya must confront the horrors buried not only in the world—but in himself.

A sweeping tale of broken worlds, ancestral memory, and the terrifying cost of rebirth, The Ninth Awakens is a mythic fantasy epic where hope bleeds, and destiny has claws.