Debt of Blood(BL)

A BL Supernatural Crime Thriller set in Modern Bangkok Content Warnings:18+ | Explicit BL content | Supernatural horror | Character death | Blood and violence | Dark themes | Mature language | manxman relationship. This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and situations are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Beneath the Chao Phraya river, something ancient has been waking up. For centuries it has waited, sealed under Bangkok's oldest waterways, patient in the way only truly immortal things can be. Now it's feeding. Quietly at first, harvesting the spiritual energy of devoted and faithful people across the city, building toward the moment it has enough power to break free entirely. Eleven victims before anyone noticed. More coming. And at the center of everything, two bloodlines it has been steering toward each other for generations. KASEM RITHIDET, 29, is a former detective turned private supernatural investigator. He can read spiritual residue, compel the dead to speak, and walk through the hidden layer of Bangkok that most people never know exists. He's carried a family debt since he was old enough to understand what debt meant, an obligation his grandfather made with something near the river in 1962, accidentally, without understanding what he was touching. Kasem has known it's coming for him. He just didn't know when, or that he wouldn't be facing it alone. SHEN WUYI, 31, is Chinese-Thai, raised between Bangkok and Fujian in a family of ghost brokers who have negotiated between the living and the dead for four generations. He can bind and release spirits, read the architecture of ancient debts, and move through the supernatural world with the ease of someone who grew up there. His family's debt is older than Thailand itself, tracing back to a Song dynasty ancestor who made a deal with a river entity during a famine. He came to Bangkok following the thread of that debt and found something he didn't expect. Someone else's bloodline tangled with his own, pointing toward the same ancient thing beneath the water. They meet over a body with no ghost in a Bangkok alley at 2am. From that point, neither of them has the option of doing this alone. Together they are more than two people working a case. They are interference, harder for the entity to track, harder to separate, harder to use. The Ngu Kin Fah, the sky-eating serpent of the old records, needs their combined bloodline energies to break its own seal. It designed its trap for two isolated people it could harvest separately. It did not account for what happens when those two people choose each other. What follows is a hunt through Bangkok's hidden world, through temple networks and river-bank information brokers and the long cold trail of victims going back years. It is also, underneath all of that, the story of two equally dangerous men discovering that the most unexpected thing either of them has ever encountered is the other person. The debt is old. The hunger beneath the river is older. But some things are stronger than either.