All William ever wanted was to be like his father—a magician.

But magic doesn't come cheap. The day William botches an errand and finds himself torn apart by demons in the dark, he commits the one mistake no spellcaster should ever make: he miscasts a summoning and calls forth Death itself.

Except Death doesn't come for his soul. It comes with an offer.

Apprenticeship. Magic. Everything William has been begging for. All he has to do is walk where the living dare not tread.

His first task: investigate a town where something unholy is harvesting human souls to tear a hole between worlds. William stops the ritual and earns his reward—the power to command the dead.

But power draws enemies. A warrior clan of unknown origins hunts necromancers like him for crimes committed long before his time. The Church persecutes anyone with abilities beyond its doctrine, ready to hang those who dare challenge its pious walls. And darkest of all—a sinister secret buried in his family's bloodline has risen, sinking its claws into William's life.

Magician or not, William must find a way to survive.

Or everything he holds dear will cease to exist.

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