The dark does not always come as a monster.
Sometimes it comes as hunger. Sometimes as silence. Sometimes as the part of you that learns how much it can survive before it stops being the same thing it was before.
The Black Cathedral was born from that feeling. From old stone, buried power, blood, ruin, and the terrible cost of staying alive in a world that has already decided what you are worth.
If you love dark fantasy with gothic atmosphere, brutal power, and something ancient breathing beneath it all, Morvane is waiting.
The Black Cathedral, Book One of The Morvane Cycle.