The stars are dying. The sky is broken. And every man who climbs to power loses his soul on the way up.

Sixteen years ago, the Empire's greatest hero burned on a pyre for a crime he was born with: the Hunger, the forbidden power to devour the strength of others.

Now Kael, a slave in the starlight mines of a dying world, wakes with the same black sun burning on his chest.

He should burn. He should go mad. He should become a hollow monster like every lord, priest and knight above him.

But Kael is an anomaly. Every power he devours makes him stronger, and the price that empties everyone else never touches him.

In a galaxy at war with itself, a slave with hi

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