Marked from birth, Niko knows his own fate. His eighteenth birthday means his death at the hands of the shape-changing sea-god who marked him, but when things go off the rails, Niko finds a different kind of trouble- and the monster that's supposed to be hunting him has much more interesting aims than eating him alive. Warning: this 16700 word erotic story contains explicit gay sex.
Note: The Smashwords website puts the word count at 17,598 words.