Cole

The world is recovering from a war that nearly destroyed it.Kingdoms have fallen. Nations have been carved apart. Magic has become the foundation of civilization, and the powerful are already preparing for the next war.In the frozen village of Tavaren, however, none of that matters.Not to the hunters returning home at sunset.Not to the children pretending to be knights in the snow.Not to the old woman who tells them stories by the fire.And certainly not to the little boy named Cole.Five years earlier, a dying stranger crossed the frozen wilderness carrying a newborn child. He never reached the village.But the child did.Raised by ordinary people, Cole grows up knowing nothing about his origins. To him, Tavaren is home. Gerald is his father. Mamoshka is family. His friends are his world.Until one day, Cole performs magic.Not ordinary magic.Something the world has never seen before.Suddenly, the boy everyone thought was ordinary becomes valuable.The knights want him.The powerful want him.And Gerald—determined to make sure his son will never suffer the way he did—begins preparing Cole for the world that awaits him.But there is a difference between protecting someone and controlling them.As Cole's power grows, so does Gerald's fear of losing him.And eventually, the war that Gerald thought he left behind comes home.**This is not the story of a chosen hero.**It is the story of a boy growing into a man.A story about friendship and betrayal.About falling in love and falling out of it.About families that are born, families that are chosen, and families that destroy each other.About kings, soldiers, revolutionaries, monsters, criminals, farmers, lovers and ordinary people trying to survive in an extraordinary age.Cole's life will span decades.He will witness nations rise and fall.He will make friends who become strangers.He will love people he cannot keep.He will lose people he cannot save.He will become powerful enough to change the world—and still struggle to understand himself.Because in an age where everyone is searching for power, wealth, glory and immortality, Cole is searching for something much simpler:**A place where he can finally be himself.**And as Cole grows older, the world grows with him.The age of legends is beginning.And Cole is about to become one of them.