Lyv Aiken
Black as the Forest
All the Hounds of Hell
— Book 1 —
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By The Same Author
All the Hounds of Hell series
Book 1 - Black as the Forest
Book 2 - A Blood-Like Rain
Book 3 - Kingdom of the Wyldes
Anthology - The Roots of Hinterland
Other Work
All That Is Left Behind
Acknowledgements
I want to Thank A.S. Williams for the presence, sharing and accountability. You made writing so much easier. And thank you to my beta readers Katie Moseman and Jeremy Todd Cumming for your help and your time.
I want to thank all the readers and most of all, those who gives me comments and feedback. You have no idea how such a small gesture can make or break an author’s day. We all feed on it. We need it. It’s our motivation to keep going. It’s how fuel to do long hours writing sessions. It drives our creativity. It makes us want to be better. Thank you for your encouragement. Thank you for sharing with us your joy, sadness, and everything in between. There is nothing more validating that to discover we made you feel things. We made you laugh, and cry, and cheer, and jump in your seat. Thank you for all the love that you gave me. I love you too.
— Lyv
Dedication
To Ivy
You disappear on me so often, but the second I start typing you’re there to paw at my keyboard leaving typos and deleting important text. I never give you the attention you want when you want it, but your comforting presence keeps me sane.
Disclaimer
This novel is intended for a mature audience only. It contain scene of nudity and explicit sexual content. It contains scenes of gore, action, violence, death, and contain coarse language.
It also contains themes of natural disaster, war, kidnapping, and the use of weapons including knives and firearms. Readers discretion is advised.
This book doesn’t endorse violence in any way, shape, or form. If you find yourself facing such acts, please seek help at your nearest shelter, or call a helpline near you.
All characters and events depicted in this novel are entirely fictional. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Also, fantasy abound!
Enjoy!
« I kissed her forehead. “I love you,” I told her. Three simple words. Three short words. Like all the most significant Things in this world, love is a little word with so much weight to it that it could shatter the crust of the earth. Like hope, pain, war, hate, faith, truth, love. But of course, love is the sweetest, the bitterest, the loneliest, and the most joyful. Love is the sum of it all. We go to war for love. It is the sources of most pains and hopes. Love is so simple, yet it’s the greatest endeavour someone may ever seek in one’s lifetime. »
