In a world where people with special abilities are condemned as heretics who have consumed God's soul to gain power, Seth Cross is horrified to discover he can control darkness with nothing but his will. Now on the run from a religious oligarchy intent on wiping out his existence, and that of all God-Eaters, he joins a rebel movement that has been operating in the shadows. But will he survive the conflict, and can a creature of darkness truly become a symbol of hope?