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Shadow Leash

TheRunesmith
Jax Harlan is nineteen, broke, and one bad deal from dead in the flooded underlevels of Cascade Spire. When the Shroud Curse rips his soul into the Fractured Expanse, he wakes chained to an ancient echo that wants his body for its next ride. To claw his way home before the girl who once kept him alive drowns in poisoned water, Jax must leash the dead, outthink every monster and every survivor, and pay prices that cut deeper than any knife. Allies fracture, power corrupts quietly, and the drowned ruins keep peeling back secrets that bleed straight back into the real world. In a place where trust is suicide and hesitation gets you eaten, Jax only has one rule left: survive long enough to decide who he becomes when the chain finally tightens all the way.
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