Vinculum. A word hastily scrawled on a scrap of paper left behind by his long dead parents, becomes much more than a mystery. It becomes Adriel's world. Adriel struggled with his life, traveling the world and searching for his place in it. His pale green eyes and snow-white hair instantly singled him out in a crowd, but that wasn't what made him different. As he struggled with conformity, he also waged war with himself-never able to control the raging pressure that swelled deep within him, alluring him with dark desires, tempting him to think of unspeakable things. Things no human should ever...