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A dead gangster gets a second chance at life.
He wishes he hadn't.
Forty-year-old Knox Cross dies in a fire born from betrayal and awakens as Antwon Carter, a fifteen-year-old boy in Kokiri-a nation where women rule through overwhelming strength, powerful bloodlines, and traditions that demand boys be gentle, obedient, and protected.
There is just one problem.
Antwon Carter was never supposed to come back.
His older sister wished for her brother's return.
Instead, she received a stranger wearing his face.
As Knox struggles to survive high school, rival clans, and the relentless devotion of Christina Tetsusen-the heiress to the Iron Fan Court-he discovers that Kokiri is unlike anything he has ever known. Here, protection can become possession, affection becomes obligation, and love is never free from power.
Yet for the first time in his life, Knox has something he never had.
A family.
A home.
A future worth keeping.
All he has to do is stop fighting.
But the longer he lives as Antwon, the harder that becomes. Memories he never lived begin surfacing as his own. Relationships he never formed feel impossible to abandon. The boy's heart remembers what the gangster's mind cannot.
Soon, Knox can no longer tell where Antwon ends and he begins.
His greatest enemy is not another student.
It is the part of himself willing to disappear.
I'm My Own High School Rival is a psychological fantasy about identity, trauma, love, and the frightening comfort of becoming someone else.
The question is not whether Knox can survive Kokiri.
It is whether there will be anything left of Knox when he does.