The Rootless King
A village burns, and with it, everything Doran Kesh has ever known. When a mysterious officer of the Ash Concord murders his mother, Doran finds himself facing a blade that....
A village burns, and with it, everything Doran Kesh has ever known. When a mysterious officer of the Ash Concord murders his mother, Doran finds himself facing a blade that should have ended him, only to discover an impossible power stirring within. He is a boy with no lineage, no crest, and no magic, yet he deflected a Concord sword with a hayfork. Now, with his home in ashes and a deadly secret awakened, Doran must flee into the unknown, pursued by forces who seek to understand—or extinguish—what makes him different. But in a world where power is everything, how can a rootless boy survive when his very existence defies every rule of magic and destiny?