Demon in the Woods

Even before the creation of the Second Army of Ravka, the formation of the Shadow Canyon, and long before becoming the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened with extraordinary power.
All his life, Erik and his mother, Lena, were on the run. In this world, there is no safe place for them. They are not like ordinary Grishas; their power is considered the deadliest and rarest of its kind. Wherever they go, death or enslavement threatens them, so they hide their true abilities from others. But sometimes the most destructive and devastating secrets can be unwittingly revealed.