New Beginnings (The Capricious Gods Series Book 1)

Twenty-four lives. This one, he's thirteen — and done playing the gods' game. Jeremiah Stovall looks like a child prodigy. He is also the most feared archmage in history, reborn into a thirteen-year-old body with one goal: break the cycle of death and rebirth that has trapped him for millennia. The world won't let him hide. A demonic rift is spreading corruption through the land. The Church's Inquisitors hunt heretics with his exact power signature. The Royal Academy wants to turn him into a weapon. And the friends he's carefully collected are starting to ask questions he can't answer without destroying everything he's built. When a demon lord attempts to manifest and a divine executioner descends to purge the corruption — and everyone touched by it — Jeremiah faces an impossible choice: remain the frightened boy the world expects, or become the monster they fear. Some cycles are meant to be broken. Some monsters are made by necessity. A dark epic fantasy about identity, power, and the terrible cost of saving a world that wants you dead.