The Child Exile was never meant to be more than a footnote in history—a cruel, bitter noble stripped of his name, condemned for his crimes, and discarded before he could become anything more. His pitiful return years later in The Fool’s Ascent was nothing but an obstacle for the true heroes before he met his inevitable end.
But history is rewritten when a reader of The Fool’s Ascent dies and awakens in the body of the infamous Child Exile. No longer the same violent boy, he refuses to be just another villain in someone else’s story. If the world is doomed to fall, he will rise to stop it. Yet his past sins are not so easily erased, and redemption will cost him everything—perhaps even his very soul.
To change the story, he must become strong; as strong as the heroes, defy fate, and carve a new power from the ashes of his own disgrace.
The world remembers the Child Exile as a villain. He will make them remember him as something more.