The Hidden Path

Seventeen-year-old Kaito Tsukishiro has spent his life believing his father abandoned him. Then he returns home to find his mother and brothers murdered, his ten-year-old sister Yuki barely alive, and soldiers searching for survivors. Kaito escapes with Yuki into a hidden network beneath the mountains, but the attack makes no sense. The killers weren’t simply hunting his family. They were hunting him. As Kaito fights to keep Yuki alive, the truth begins to unravel. His mother lied about why they lived in exile. Someone tried to have him killed when he was an infant. And the father Kaito believed had cast him aside was actually Seijuro Raizen, the dead Sovereign of Tenrai. Now Seijuro’s three legitimate heirs are tearing the nation apart in a brutal war for the throne—and none of them know what to do with a hidden fourth child who was never supposed to survive. But Kaito carries more than royal blood. His silver-white hair marks him as a descendant of the nearly forgotten Tsukishiro clan, and something ancient is beginning to awaken inside him. His senses sharpen. His body reacts before he can think. Danger seems to reach him before it strikes. Kaito wants no throne. He wants Yuki safe. He wants to know who murdered his family. And he wants the truth about why someone has been trying to erase him since the day he was born. But the longer he searches for answers, the harder it becomes to remain hidden. Because while three heirs fight to rule Tenrai, a fourth is beginning to rise. And Kaito Tsukishiro may be the one heir none of them saw coming.

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