Duck That Swallows Night

In a world that outlawed God, one man carries His last whisper beneath his skin. When Chungho s father was imprisoned for owning a Bible, the boy learned to hide truth under the flesh. Years later, in the Empire where vanity is religion and humility a crime he walks the desert haunted by a serpent tatoo that hurts him every time he prays. Each city he enters worships a new kind of god: one made from appetite, mirrors, or surgery. Each promises salvation through self-creation. But when Chungho frees a caravan of condemned souls and awakens the monster grafted into his spine, he becomes both shepherd and weapon the man who swallows the dark. Hunted by zealots and adored by the desperate, he must cross a continent of synthetic faiths and artificial creations to find a hidden valley where truth still breathes. Epic, lyrical, and terrifying, The Duck that Swallows Night is a vision of faith under extinction where miracles bleed, idols sell redemption by the ounce, and the last believer may be starting to lose his faith.