Synopsis

He had sought solace in a new city, Akashic Valley, a deliberate distancing from the life he’d known. Khalil Payne had traded familiarity for the hope of peace, yet for a man burdened by a history as potent and dangerous as Painkiller, tranquility proved elusive. He had built walls around himself, a self-imposed exile, but peace rarely arrives unbidden, especially not for those haunted by their past.