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Vessel is a creature living in a dimension-hopping dungeon. His destiny? Working for his colony until he outlives his usefulness. But secretly, Vessel engages in acts of rebellion: he mercy-kills human prisoners meant to feed the colony\u2019s parasitic larvae. When a doomed human prisoner, Clarien, leaves Vessel a diary about his life as a monster hunter, it opens Vessel\u2019s eyes to a possible new life. But when his kindness to humans is discovered, he\u2019s sentenced to a brutal, slow death.<\/p>\n

Rhys and Sera are monster hunters, graduates of a school that takes in disabled children cast out by their families and gives them powers and training. Although they have an open marriage, nothing lasting has come of it. When clearing out a dimension-hopping dungeon, they find a young hunter named Clarien who\u2019s been left to die by monsters. Catching feelings while taking care of him isn\u2019t something they planned on.<\/p>\n

However, the man they know as Clarien is Vessel, who\u2019s taken on the first Clarien\u2019s identity using his diary as a guide. Pretending to be human is hard, though, and he\u2019s started having strange feelings for Rhys and Sera that he has no idea how to interpret.<\/p>\n

Feelings that scare him with their intensity. Feelings that might not matter if Rhys and Sera find out that he\u2019s the sort of creature they hunt\u2026<\/p>\n

This book features a trans character in a setting where being trans is no big deal, badass disabled monster hunters, an enormous gruff swordsman who would do anything for his adorable bard, a back brace that doubles as armor, and a soft bisexual eldritch abomination learning what love really is.<\/p>\n

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Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• Polyamorous, bisexual protagonists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Sexual assault; gore <\/div>