He was the queen's greatest weapon. Loyal, lethal, and unknowingly enslaved.
Cedric has spent his life serving the crown - fighting her wars, enforcing her justice, never questioning her commands. He didn't know the obedience was manufactured. He didn't know the queen had been drugging him for years.
When she's done with him, she doesn't just fire him. She exiles him to the edge of the world and throws him into the ocean.
He survives. Barely.
Cast into a foreign kingdom where his name is a curse and his past makes him a target, Cedric must rebuild himself from nothing - armed only with survival instincts, a mysterious connection to an ancient Tree of Life, and the slowly dawning realization that the queen's reign must end.
But dethroning a queen is not a one-man war. And the man he used to be is not the man he needs to become.
The Last Champion is an epic YA fantasy about power, identity, and what it means to fight for something real.