The Bookkeeper Novel

A stroke of good fortune always comes at the cost of another's misery. Jack Grim, raised by two legendary assassins, grew up surrounded by cold brutality and the art of killing. At seventeen, he received his final assignment as an assassin apprentice. Success promised everything: his own criminal organization and the life he had always yearned for. Jack completed the mission flawlessly at midnight and claimed his reward. Then everything changed. A violent headache and burning fever consumed him, followed by an inexplicable transmigration. He awoke in the body of Raiden, a man known as the keeper of the Book of Ashes—a sacred artifact at the heart of a powerful entity called the Devourer. Raiden had died defending this mysterious book with his life. Jack had no interest in this new world or its magic. He wanted only to return to his assassin's life. However, fate had determined otherwise. The world's stability now depended entirely on his ability to protect the book. Whether he accepted it or not, the burden of this responsibility had become his alone to carry.