Thirty-Seven Names: The Lives Before Horon

Before Horon became a demon, he was thirty-seven lives.

Thirty-seven people once walked beneath different skies.

A mother who would die protecting her daughter.
A horse trainer haunted by the sound of cavalry.
A soldier who discovered that obedience and honor were not the same thing.
A murderer who understood fear all too well.
A child whose paper boat would survive centuries of darkness.
A healer who loved the sunrise.

They were parents, lovers, criminals, warriors, healers, rulers, dreamers, and ordinary people who never imagined their deaths would become the beginning of something far more terrible.

One by one, their souls were stolen by the Underwake.

Their names were erased.

Their memories were shattered.

Their love, grief, courage, rage, guilt, tenderness, and fear were stripped apart and forged together until thirty-seven human lives became a single weapon:

Horon.

But darkness made one fatal mistake.

It believed that destroying a person’s name could destroy everything that person had ever been.

Thirty-Seven Names: The Lives Before Horon journeys through the complete lives of the souls hidden within one of the most feared beings in the world of Before the Last Dawn—from their first breaths and childhood dreams to the loves that shaped them, the choices that haunted them, and the final moments that carried them into darkness.

Some were good.

Some were guilty.

Some were innocent.

None were insignificant.

And buried inside the monster they were used to create, pieces of them refused to disappear.

Haunting, intimate, tragic, and ultimately hopeful, Thirty-Seven Names is a dark fantasy about what remains of us after everything else has been taken away.

Thirty-seven lives. Thirty-seven deaths. One demon. And thirty-seven names that refused to be erased.