Beyond the Mortal Realm

Jude Sterling was written off by his family as a mute disgrace and left behind without a second thought. Unknown to them, he had taken a ten-year vow of silence as a deliberate step toward immortality. Called back home on his tenth birthday, mainly for appearances, he arrives transformed into a gifted poet and a fighter whose power could shake the world, and the household that discarded him now has to face the person he has become.