I could already hear a wailing chorus of human screams rising from the other side. And creatures were pouring through it, from this world into that one. The low hum had become a thunderous roar. Once a narrow sliver in the air, a barely perceptible wave of energy, now it was gaping. I cocked my head as I approached the tear. They moved seamlessly out of my way like I was an opposing force, flowing back and making my walk far more pleasant. The mass of howling, shoving, clawing beasts parted as I silently made my way through the valley toward the jagged slash of shimmering air. Which meant I wasn’t overly happy with all these fucking things using my tear to clamber their way through now.

I’d been using this tear between our worlds-this largely secret, unknown rip in our world fabric-for almost longer than I could remember. I’d been visiting this other world for eons, destroying the parasites that slipped through and infected humanity. Of course, I had been going through for millennia. The creatures that shoved and bit and clawed their way were frantic in their desperation to get through, to flood into a new place where the scent of hot blood was thick and a glut of living things waited. There are also graphic depictions of torture and violence.The teeming mass in front of me writhed like a beast with a thousand legs. Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit content and is not suitable for young readers. It is the first in a planned post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. Soul Eater is the debut novel of Lily Mayne. And when I’m the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that… something about me has intrigued him.īut what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood? I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own.

One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization.

Wyn by Lily Mayne