The Darkening Novel (m/m, yaoi)

 

Dylan Sloan

Dylan Sloan is a rising rock star, the lead singer for the goth band Label Rejects.  With his bandmates at his side, he feels he can face the other talent he has other than singing: seeing monsters in the almost contant darkness of the scorched sky.

Label Rejects' big break comes when the head of the Mars Crime Syndicate, Karidon Raiken, books them for a gig at the most exclusive club in the city, Recluse.  The enigmatic and handsome Karidon attracts Dylan even as the man seems to attract the most terrifying monsters to cluster around him.

 

 

 

Karidon Raiken

Karidon is the leader of the Mars Crime Syndicate and the owner of the exclusive club, Recluse.  It is said that he is a cold-blooded killer who murdered all the rival criminals to take over the city. Yet for all his fearsome reputation, he immediately takes Dylan under his wing and appears to admire the rocker's voice as much as his body.

He also apparently senses Dylan's ability to see monsters.  He asks the young man why he is afraid of them.  When Dylan says he's convinced the monsters are there to kill people, Raiken asks him how he knows.  After all, has Dylan ever talked to the creatures that inhabit the dark?