Courting Death

After being betrayed by the Syndicate and executed by his own brother-in-law, Zenon Jace Zafiare, the world's most feared assassin, wakes up in the body of Zypher Jace Astrea. He is no longer a man of the slums and shadows, but the eldest son of the prestigious House Astrea, a family of Grand Dukes second only to the crown.

However, his new life is far from noble. Despite his high status, the original Zypher was a fragile, timid soul-a "disgrace" to his warrior bloodline. At the prestigious Aethelgard Royal Academy, Zypher is the favorite target of Prince Lyrien Riverie Cravenson, the arrogant youngest prince of the realm. Lyrien, fueled by a deep-seated jealousy of the Astrea family's influence, has spent years making Zypher's life a living hell, subjecting him to public humiliation and brutal bullying that the academy's faculty chooses to ignore.

But the boy who once cowered in the face of royalty is gone. In his place stands a man who has mastered a hundred ways to kill, a man who views the Prince's petty power plays as mere child's play.

As Zypher navigates his new life, he must also play the role of a protective older brother to his two younger siblings, who have long looked at their eldest brother with a mix of pity and shame. To protect his family and survive the viper's nest of the Academy, Zypher must hide his lethal instincts while slowly dismantling the Prince's reign of terror.

The "victim" is gone. The Zenon Zafier has arrived, and he's about to teach the Royal Family that true power isn't inherited-it's taken.