lacey-books

The King is dead.The Seven Great Houses gather to choose a successor, and Kayode Balógun is summoned to vote.Five hundred years ago, his blood crowned an Empire. Now he owns no land, commands no knights, and bears a Blight no Healer could cure, one that leaves him Classless. He is a Great Lord only in name.When the vote is called, the nobles see him as nothing more than a pawn to be used.Yet Kayode refuses to play their games.He refuses to vote.For that defiance, he is murdered.Kayode wakes at dawn—alive, unscarred—and bound to an ancient Class long believed lost to time: The Kingdom Maker, the world’s only S+ Class.