Agnst_Ella

"If somehow you could rewrite your life's greatest sins."

Damien Vryce, a hard-hearted killer, was hanged for tyranny. He found himself awoken one year ahead of his fall. Having recollections from his past, he swore to make amends and save himself from the gallows. In the path of redemption lay treachery, conspiracies under the surface, and an unlikely, but hot love with the unknown woman, Amara Draven.

As Damien sows the seeds of distrust by laying ruin to his past empire of fear, he recognizes that redemption considers the acknowledgement of the sins that have been committed along with the crossing of the line from sin to repentance. An entire kingdom lies in the threshold of war, enemies imbued with greed lurk in the shadows, and the second chance for Damien may well be the last.

20 power stones = 2 extra chapter
4 golden ticket = 2 extra chapter

Redemption In The Shadows

The war was supposed to be over. Calder was dead, the Obsidian Circle dismantled, and Winter's Crown had finally begun to heal. But peace was an illusion, and Damien knew it.

Selene's arrival had shattered the fragile quiet. Lucien Calder, the younger brother of the man Damien had fought and killed, was alive. More than that—he was plotting his return.

Damien stood in the war room, his steel-gray eyes scanning the map before him. The locations of old rebel camps, hidden supply caches, and abandoned fortresses were marked in red. Any one of them could be where Lucien was gathering strength.

Erynn sat across from him, flipping through intelligence reports. "Lucien was a ghost even before Calder's war. He never held any official power, never commanded armies. If he's resurfacing now, it means he believes he can win."

Carys leaned against the table, arms crossed. "That means he has allies."

Chapter 145: A Serpent in the Dark