Hunted. Wounded. Running out of time.
Benedict has spent years fighting for a kingdom that stole his freedom. Now, branded a fugitive, he races through the village streets, the sound of armored boots closing in behind him. He has escaped death countless times—but this time, the noose is tightening.
As he flees, memories of another life resurface. A life before the war. Before the kingdom tore him away from the only person who ever mattered.
Catherine.
Once, they were just children, laughing beneath the sun, promising never to be apart. But promises mean nothing in a world ruled by kings and swords. When Benedict is captured and conscripted, Catherine is left behind, a ghost of a past he was forced to forget.
Until now.
Bleeding, barely conscious, Benedict finds himself in the hands of a healer—the girl he lost, the girl who once held his heart. But will she recognize the boy she knew in the broken man before her? And if she does… will she save him, or turn him in?
A gripping tale of love, survival, and destiny, Benedict is a story of two souls torn apart by war, fighting for a second chance before time runs out.