Runic Awakening - Paperback

by Clayton Taylor Wood (Author)

Every night, Kyle dreams he is a man he has never met - a warrior in magic armor who lived two thousand years ago, fighting to save his family as his world burns.

Then he wakes up, and the armor and the power are gone. He's just Kyle again - overlooked, outmatched, and used to it. Nothing to his name but an old ring his father gave him, plain enough he's never thought twice about it.

Until the night the ring comes alive - and drags him into another world that runs on magic, a place that nearly kills him before a retired mage named Kalibar pulls him to safety. That plain old ring, Kalibar discovers, is ancient runework no one has crafted in a thousand years - and it didn't bring Kyle here by accident. Someone reached across worlds to summon him, and no one can say who, or why. When Kalibar tests how much magic the boy can generate, the result breaks every record in the empire. Kyle has no idea how to use a fraction of it, and he may not have time to learn.

Because something has been waiting for him. Beneath the city, a cult of Death Weavers has hungered for a power like his for centuries - and they mean to hollow out his mind, bend him to their will, and wield his magic as their own. On Earth, Kyle survived by keeping his head down and taking the hits; here, that only gets him caught - and being caught is worse than dying. His one chance is the thing he never dared back home: to turn and face an enemy far stronger than he is - and fight, even when it looks like sure defeat.

They're hunting Kyle for his power - never guessing it's bound to the dreams, or that both are the least of what he is. Neither does Kyle.

Runic Awakening - Book One of the Runic Series.