They Thought I Was Dumb — I'm Not Even Human

Jude Sterling was written off by his family as a mute disgrace and left behind without a second thought. The truth is that he had taken a ten-year vow of silence as a deliberate step toward immortality. When his relatives summon him home on his tenth birthday, mainly for appearances, he arrives transformed into a gifted poet and a fighter strong enough to shake the world, and the household that dismissed him must now face the boy they abandoned.