The Cursed Awakening

He was twenty-six years old when he died. He woke up as someone else's son. Born into House Vorn — a proud military family where elemental magic is everything — Kael carries the memories of a modern world no one in this kingdom would believe. He knows how systems work. He knows how power works. And he knows, watching his brothers channel fire while he produces nothing, that something is very wrong with him. At twelve, the Awakening Ceremony reveals the truth. Not fire. Not lightning. Not anything the Registry has a clean word for. The shadows in the hall move toward him, and the room goes cold, and his father's face becomes a door closing. Thirty days. Prove yourself worthy or be cast out. What follows is not the story of a boy who learns to fit in. It is the story of a boy who learns, in secret, in the dark, that what everyone calls a curse might be the most powerful magic in the kingdom — if only anyone had ever known how to hold it. The Cursed Awakening is Book One of The Dark Ascendant — a ten-book dark fantasy progression series about a reincarnated outsider who turns the world's greatest stigma into its greatest power.