Wraith Knight

Following the death of the King Below, the monstrous ruler who threatened the world, a new power vacuum opens. Jacob Riverson, once celebrated as the finest hero of his age, fell in what was meant to be the last battle against that tyrant. Instead of dying, he was bound for centuries as a Wraith Knight, forced to serve the very creature he had opposed.

When his master is destroyed, Jacob regains control of his own will and finds a world divided by open conflict. On one side are the people who were enslaved under the King Below, and on the other are the heroes who claim they liberated them. Jacob teams up with Regina Whitetremor, a brilliant fighter whose idealism can border on blind faith. Together they face the question of whether Jacob still has a place in this new order, and whether he is destined to be a hero, a monster, or something of both.

Wraith Knight is the first novel in C. T. Phipps's Three Worlds saga.