Misericord

His mother taught him mercy. His father taught him cruelty. The wolves taught him the difference.

Ryko Graves was eleven when his world ended in a remote mountain lodge. His mother died, his father turned love into a lesson in suffering, and an innocent dog named Blue paid the price.

Years later, Ryko emerges from the wilderness carrying scars no one can see, an old red dog collar around his wrist, and a philosophy of justice shaped by everything he survived.

In the small town of Rillford, peo...