Sakori knows what the Dark One is capable of. He calls him Father anyway.

At nine years old, Sakori loses his village and is taken behind the black gates of Khar'Rukan. There, among the people responsible for his loss, he finds a home. He trains beside their children, learns the empire's laws, and grows to love the family he once feared.

Then Yanna of Halvek refuses to kneel.

Fierce and determined to keep her own name, Yanna challenges the customs Sakori has learned to obey. As their bond deepens, the son of the Dark Alpha must face what his loyalty has cost and what loving Yanna will ask of him.

Beyond the city walls, a fourteen-day trial awaits. Sakori has been taught to fight, endure, and kill. On Murder Island, knowing when to stop may be the lesson that matters most.

Sakori: Son of the Dark Alpha is the second book in Children of the Dark Alpha, set in Tony James Nelson II's Tribal Universe. Told in Sakori's own voice, this dark fantasy follows a stolen childhood, an unlikely family, and a love tested by the empire that raised him.

Contains intense fantasy violence, blood and gore, and mature themes.