Host

He was grown to be a dead lord's body. He woke up still inside it.

The Undying never die. When their bodies grow old, they move their minds into new ones, grown for them in the Pens under the ice of Grieve.

Kade was raised for one purpose: to become the next body of Lord Cassian Varro, the most feared soldier in the Dominion. He was meant to be empty. He wasn't.

When killers strike in the middle of the Crossing, the transfer stops halfway. Kade wakes in control of his body, with Varro's memories, skills and voice alive in his head. The dead lord wants his body back. And every time Kade borrows his skill, he loses a piece of himself.

Now Kade must pass as Varro among ruthless immortals. He must stand beside a wife who wears the face of the girl he loved, kneel before an Archon nine hundred years old, and fight in the Crucible, a war game where every death is real.

If he slips, he will be erased. If he survives, he will learn what the Crossing really is.

Host is the first book of The Crossing, a dark science fiction series about power, memory and the right to keep your own name.