Inverse Dragon Son

Li Shen presses a hand to a stranger's chest and feels two kinds of power fight under the skin. One keeps the heart beating. The other wants to drag the body into the dark. He is a physician who understands death well enough to hold life together for a little longer, and that skill makes him valuable to people who would rather use him than help him. He is also trapped in a cruel kind of memory gap. A person close to him slowly cut away his friends, his work, and his choices until his world became small enough to miss. Then the cracks started to show. A sealed earpiece, a hidden pocket in his handbook, and a phone marked with a double seal all point back to the same hand. Li Shen keeps going ...