I escaped the Shadowmen when I was ten. I thought I was free of them. I really did.I was wrong.It's the start of our fourth year at the academy, and things are worse than they ever were. I feel like I'm surrounded by Shadowmen, and that feeling gets worse as they begin monitoring me almost every minute I'm awake and outside of my room.The constant increase in pressure is getting to me. Pushing and pushing at my hard-won controls, where a mistake at the wrong time that someone sees may just end up with countless deaths as the organization comes for me and hides my absence in the carnage left behind.I was raised to be a hunter, and this waiting and watching and hoping and praying is flying in the face of everything I was taught from the first moments I can remember.Can I survive this level of attention?Nothing is certain except that failure means detection. Detection means a worldwide organization is put into motion to take me out and bring me back home to Shadowmaster. Whip.The two men that controlled my life up until I escaped.I can't let them find me.That means I have to hunt, all the while surrounded by professionals that have the same training I had.Nothing is certain. Definitely not success.But I need to try.My name is Ty, and it's time for me to hunt in the shadows to protect myself. My family. My friends. Failure means death or worse, but there's a reason I graduated at the youngest age ever, and I think it's time to put that training to the test.