LIGHTBORN : the rise of the greatest hero

Nael Lightborn died a failure.No powers. No destiny. Just a seventeen-year-old nobody who cleaned toilets and dreamed of being a hero.Then a villain's explosion tore him apart — and death turned out to be just the beginning.In the space between life and the afterlife, a mysterious being wreathed in flames gives him a choice: prove yourself worthy, or stay dead. Nael endures trials that break body and soul — and wakes up in a morgue body bag, alive, scarless, and changed.Now the Hero Academy awaits. His classmates have flashy, obvious powers. Nael's gift is different. Quieter. Deeper. And far more dangerous than anyone suspects.But the Academy is not the safe haven it appears to be. Something dark is stirring in the shadows — a force that has been watching since before Nael even died. And somehow, he is at the center of it all.In a world where heroes are celebrities and villains move in the shadows, a boy who died a nobody must rise to become something the world has never seen.The light has been born. Now it must learn to burn.