Demi

By Gaetano Comparcola

A homeless young man who uses stimulants to outrun apocalyptic dreams lets an ancient wolf-god possess him to survive an ambush, then must reclaim ownership of his mind before the wolf, its golden brother, and the sun-god that made them enemies tear Los Angeles open.

Marley has spent four years on the streets of Los Angeles doing whatever it takes not to sleep.

Sleep brings the wolf.

Stimulants keep the dreams away - until his best friend, Damon, steals a black reliquary and armed men corner them in a dead-end alley. A voice inside the dark offers Marley a bargain: give it control, and they both survive.

Marley says the name DEMI.

He wakes surrounded by bodies, pieces of Damon, and the ancient wolf-god now living behind his eyes. Demi needs a human vessel long enough to hunt Aurel, the golden brother who betrayed him. Across the city, celebrated philanthropist Lucien Vale is building shelters for people nobody counts - and feeding those same people into a ritual older than the sun.

Hunted by a cult, a compromised police department, and the monster sharing his body, Marley is forced into an alliance with Imani, an outreach worker who refuses to confuse saving someone with owning them, and Detective Elena Ruiz, who has finally found evidence too impossible to bury.

The only map through the coming war is a book Marley cannot yet read.

To survive, he will have to confront the addiction that keeps him awake, the grief that keeps Damon alive inside him, and the oldest lie in creation: that power has the right to name whatever it controls.

DEMI is a raw, cinematic dark urban fantasy about possession, brotherhood, recovery, consent, and a young man the world called empty discovering that emptiness may be the one place no god can own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HD6P3SC9
• ISBN13: 9798190629972
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"