Clay was the youngest genius physician in the empire, feared and respected—the "Right Hand of God." He despised desire and emotional weakness, devoting himself to poisons and forbidden formulas. When tasked with creating a potion to suppress the Serpent King Silas's devastating heat, he tasted his own creation. It wasn't a cure. It was an elixir that awakened the deepest, darkest desires buried in his soul. The cold physician had just unleashed a fire he could not control.
