The Ogre Gods: Half-Blood (The Ogre Gods #2)

Yori is a Half-Blood, the son of a noble-born and his mistress. Raised alongside the king’s degenerate legitimate children, his intelligence and grace become the focus of their jealousy.

After one fight too many, the bastard is thrown into the streets with his mother, where they face the harshness of common life. Alcoholism, prostitution, and the challenges of this new life forge in him a soul of iron, driving the young man to do anything necessary to take revenge on the paternal clan who evicted them so cruelly. And thus he begins a cold and Machiavellian climb.