The King's Butler

Pierce Ashborn serves the king the way a blade serves its wielder. He is the man sent when talk fails, when mercy would be a liability, when a problem needs to end. Armed with the ability to store physical force within his own body, he has never met an enemy he could not outlast. But even weapons grow dull. When a routine assignment uncovers a thread leading to Montfort, the mentor who trained him and then vanished without explanation, Pierce realizes the past he thought he understood was built on lies. The search for answers pulls him from the king's shadow into a world of opium dealers, assassins, and a woman who offers him a deal he cannot refuse. Then the prince frames him for treason, and overnight Pierce loses everything. His name, his home, his place in the only world he has ever known. Now a fugitive riding toward an unknown fate, he must survive long enough to find the truth about Montfort, about the fire that haunts his dreams, and about the man he is becoming. But some truths destroy what they illuminate. And the road ahead is paved with people who want him dead. NEW CHAPTERS DAILY BY 8 AM EST.