Embracing You with Decaying Hands

Cursed with hands that turn anything they touch to dust, Elio has spent eight years hiding away in the forest everyone fears—content to decay alone rather than hurt another soul. But when a wounded girl collapses outside his shack in the pouring rain, he finds himself unable to leave her to die. He cannot hold her. He cannot comfort her the way he wants to. Every moment at her side is a battle against his own power, a single slip away from disaster. And yet, for the first time since he was driv