Kyle is the smallest, most overlooked kid in his school - the one who freezes when it counts. Then, without warning, a portal tears open and pulls him into another world... one where he's destined to become one of the most powerful people alive.
But this new world is extraordinarily dangerous, with magical creatures on the prowl. Hunted by one of them, Kyle is inches from death when a legendary old sorcerer named Kalibar saves him - and finds something impossible: Kyle comes from a world without a trace of magic, yet he can generate more of it than anyone this world has ever seen.
And a power like his doesn't stay secret for long. A cult of Death Weavers has hungered for one for centuries - and their deadliest servant, a soft-spoken, corpse-pale thing called the Dead Man, means to hollow out his mind, bend him to their will, and wield his magic as their own. Back home Kyle survived by keeping his head down; here, that only gets him caught - and being caught is worse than dying.
What really pulled him out of his own world - and who wanted him here badly enough to reach across worlds to bring him? Kyle doesn't know. He only knows that if he can't learn to wield the power inside him - fast - the Dead Man will be the last thing he ever sees.
For readers of Brandon Sanderson and Will Wight - a hard magic system with real rules, and a world where the weakest boy in the room may be the most dangerous person in it.
Book one of the Runic Series. Free in Kindle Unlimited.