The Man Who Died Twice

THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE Victor wakes beneath a mountain of corpses. Thousands of bodies surround him, burning in a mass grave beneath the night sky. He doesn't know who put him there. He doesn't know why he was killed. Most terrifying of all— he doesn't remember being alive. With no memories, no identity, and nothing but a name he isn't even certain belongs to him, Victor escapes the graveyard and enters a world that looks deceptively familiar. Modern cities still stand. People still go to work. Governments still hide their secrets. But behind the ordinary world lies another one. A world of vampires who rule ancient bloodlines from the shadows. Werewolves who guard territories older than human nations. Hunters who have spent generations preparing for creatures humanity was never meant to know existed. And then there are the Gates. Impossible rifts in reality that appear without warning, leading to places filled with monsters, ancient ruins, and things that should never have existed. Victor knows nothing about this hidden world. Yet the hidden world seems to know him. A vampire looks at his face and calls him by a name he doesn't recognize. A werewolf senses something impossible in his blood. A powerful human organization wants him captured. And somewhere beyond the Gates, something has begun searching for him. Then a mysterious System awakens inside Victor. It offers him power. Skills. Levels. And fragments of the memories he lost. But every memory he recovers brings him closer to a truth he may wish he had never discovered. Because Victor wasn't simply found among the dead. He was one of the reasons they were there. And the people who killed him believed they were saving the world. They were wrong. Now the Gates are opening again. The vampires are preparing for war. The werewolves are choosing sides. And something ancient has finally noticed that Victor is alive. He died once trying to stop it. This time, it intends to make sure he remembers why. The dead have memories. Blood has a history. And Victor has died before.