After losing his wife and daughter in a car accident, former Navy SEAL Rhett Blakely is offered a brutal kind of mercy: reincarnation in a dying world that needs a new kind of mage. The goddess Aethara doesn't want a hero in shining armor-she wants an engineer of miracles, someone who can treat magic like energy, circuits, and code. Rhett accepts, not for glory, but to make the pain mean something.