Loyalty. Betrayal. Redemption. In the Valkyrie Kingdom, love and war are two sides of the same blade.Raised to be a monster. Trained to kill without mercy. Destined to die alone.Liam, the King's executioner, knows nothing but blood and death. A tool sharpened by his father's brutality, he has lived his life in the shadows of violence, a blade forged to protect the kingdom at any cost. But everything changes the day he finds a boy barely clinging to life in the wreckage of a fallen kingdom.That boy was Dustin.Years later, Liam returns to the Valkyrie Kingdom, only to find the boy he once saved is now a man who despises him. Dustin's innocence has been burned away by suffering, and his hatred for Liam runs as deep as the scars left behind.But fate has other plans.As external threats close in, the hunter and the hunted must become allies. The fragile line between vengeance and redemption blurs, and Dustin begins to see the man behind the executioner's mask.Yet, some wounds never fully heal.Liam fights his own demons, but will Dustin be the one to finally save him from the darkness inside?Or will the ghosts of their pasts destroy them both?