Cold Steel and Rotten Bone

Jack Harlan spent over forty brutal years as a gun-for-hire in a world without mercy. He was never the legend everyone feared — just a reliable man who did ugly work for ugly money and never pretended otherwise. When a drunk driver ends his life on a rainy street, Jack expects nothing but darkness. Instead, he awakens as a newborn girl in the decaying Baron family of Eldrath, a kingdom where magic is real, nobility feast while the poor starve, and any magic involving the dead is branded vile but not forbidden. Trapped in a fragile female body with decades of violent memories, Jack does not hide his growing necromantic powers, nor does he boast about them. He simply uses them when needed, the only way he knows how: efficiently and without apology. In a realm where high-level individuals are treated like living gods yet can still die to a well-placed knife, where necromancers are both feared and secretly sought after for curing "mysterious illnesses," and where even the strongest must bow to law and noble blood… Jack Harlan will do what he has always done. Survive. Adapt. And get the job done — no matter how rotten the bones. Cold Steel and Rotten Bone is a grimdark progression fantasy about an old killer reborn into a new world of magic, curses, political decay, and the quiet power of death.