The Mourning Edge
Two Murders. One Broken Blade. A Legendary Soul Reborn. At the gates of the elite Ironcrest War Academy, seventeen-year-old Rowan Vance is beaten to death in the mud while the instructors....
Two Murders. One Broken Blade. A Legendary Soul Reborn. At the gates of the elite Ironcrest War Academy, seventeen-year-old Rowan Vance is beaten to death in the mud while the instructors watch in silence. In a kingdom where military rank determines whether a life has value, an unranked commoner from a ruined house is worth less than dirt. As the boy’s heart stops, the soul of Sir Alden Vance—the realm’s greatest swordsman, murdered sixty years ago—awakens inside the broken body. Armed with six decades of lethal combat mastery inside frail, bruised flesh, Alden inherits a family on the brink of total collapse: an ailing father crushed by debt, and a fierce older sister secretly preparing to sacrifice her freedom in a forced marriage. To save them, he must re-enter the very academy that killed him and dig up his own sixty-year-old grave to reclaim the Mourning Edge—a broken black-iron blade that communicates through crushing pressure and hungers for violence. Atop the academy towers stands the man who murdered him: the revered, untouchable Lord Marshal Cassius Ward. Trapped in a body too weak to unleash his full power, Rowan must hide his true strength, win with razor-thin restraint, and master a weapon with an insatiable appetite. A murdered boy. A legendary warrior. One body—and a blade that remembers both deaths.