A LitRPG Grimdark Noir
Delver's Lament
His gift was finding the lost. His curse was knowing what had taken them.
Mace Narien is an emotionally scarred dungeon delver and missing-persons investigator with psychometry — he feels the emotional residue of past traumas through his surroundings, dreading the day he becomes one of the monsters in the dark whose sadistic hungers, joys, and triumphs he intimately experiences. After a job gone wrong, he thought he'd found his retirement at the bottom of a bottle. He was wrong.
Lissandra isn’t what she claims, but she’s given him an offer he can’t refuse. He knows only fools and saints take this bargain. And he’s no saint.
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About the Author
Rook Darrow
Long-time reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and LitRPG. Reformed margin-scribbler. Now the one writing the footnotes. Delver's Lament is his love letter to every dungeon crawl, every hard-won level, and every party wipe — and to every reader who ever refused to stop reading until they hit a checkpoint.
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