Hollow Punch
READING AGE 18+
In the city of Ashenford, the only law is the fist. The Crucible is an underground fighting tournament where losers don't just lose—they leave on stretchers, or not at all.Michael Voss works as a rink mopper. He's the one who wipes blood off the canvas between fights. Deaf in his left ear from a childhood accident, he's been dismissed as useless his entire life. But Michael has one gift: a near-photographic memory for combat. He's watched thousands of fights from the shadows, memorizing every punch, every feint, every fatal mistake.When his only friend—a kind-hearted journeyman fighter—is deliberately crippled in a rigged match, the arena owner laughs it off as collateral damage. Michael has no trainer, no power, and no right to step into the ring. But he has something better: a mind full of patterns and nothing left to lose.They call him the Hollow Punch because his fists have nothing behind them. Until he shows them that nothing is exactly what they should fear.
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The raven arrived at midnight, its feathers black as the void between stars, its eyes burning with a cold fire that seemed to pierce the darkness itself. It crashed through the window of Kael's study, its body smoking, its beak clutching a scroll sealed with wax that pulsed with a dark, malevolent light. The raven collapsed on the floor, ……
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