A boy falls. A hero rises. A kingdom trembles.
You’ve read it before.
If you like your heroes clean and neat, close the book now.
Twelve-year-old Caleb lives in a world where a man’s worth is measured by his strength. In a village hollowed by famine, he is invisible—until a desperate attempt to feed his family ends at the bottom of a ravine.
Caleb Webber died that day.
The Crown gives him a new name and buries him in the palace shadows. There, he is sharpened into something useful. Something dangerous.
A weapon.
As a foreign conflict looms, he moves where danger lurks and secrets have a price. But ghosts have a way of haunting the living, and the kingdom now teeters on the edge of a war it cannot win.
He must decide what he truly is: the weapon he was built to be, or the boy who once swore to save his family.
Welcome to a life fought on two fronts:
the soil and the soul.
