Born with a failing heart and abandoned young, Marcus Elder was never meant to survive. But through grit, grief, and a lifetime of fighting, he endured. When he's pulled into the fractured world of Terra—where magic, monsters, and dungeons shape the fate of nations—Marcus discovers a power unlike any other. Hunted by enemies in the shadows and tested by gods and monsters alike, he must master more than strength—he must master himself. With outcasts at his side and defiance in his blood, Marcus fights not to rise, but to protect. Even when the world tells him to fall.
