Drew Hallas was an ordinary warehouse worker. Then he woke up naked on a ritual altar in another world and accidentally absorbed four centuries of spatial magic that was meant for someone else.

Now he can fold space, teleport, and reshape the landscape with a thought — and the power is growing every day.

The woman who tried to sacrifice him, Maren Thessik, had been holding her dying noble house together alone for six years. She needed Drew to play lord. She didn't expect him to actually be good at it — rebuilding the estate in weeks, killing the monsters overrunning her territory, and restoring defenses that hadn't functioned in years. She also didn't expect what she started feeling when she watched him do it.

Word spread fast. Lyra Vestane rode in from a former vassal house expecting a fraud. Instead she found a lord who killed twenty monsters without drawing a weapon. She knelt with her sword before the day was over, and stayed for considerably more than politics.

Then the church sent Celene, a young priestess, to spy on him. What she found wasn't a fraud — it was evidence that her own institution had been sabotaging House Thessik from the inside. She burned her faith, signed testimony against the church, and fell for the man who bled keeping her alive in a corrupted forest.

Drew is building something worth fighting for. The power keeps growing. The allies keep coming. And the enemies who tried to destroy House Thessik are about to find out what happens when the new lord pushes back.