The Reawakening of Mage Axum

By Tucker Axum

A soldier killed in World War II. A stranger's body. A second chance he never asked for.

In 1944, Private Mage Axum leaves behind his wife and young daughter in Texas, and joins the fight against Nazi Germany. When he is killed in battle, his family receives the telegram every military household dreads.

But Mage's story does not end on the battlefield.

Weeks later, an American soldier wakes in a French hospital with no dog tags, no memory of how he arrived, and a face he does not recognize. A compassionate priest helps him search for the truth, but the answer only deepens the mystery: the body belongs to James Karl, a missing American war correspondent from Oregon. The memories belong to Mage Axum.

Returned to the United States as James Karl, Mage must confront an impossible choice. Does he reclaim the family he lost in Texas, even if doing so destroys the new life they have built without him? Or does he accept the identity, family, and future that fate has placed before him?

Inspired by real events and rooted in the sacrifice of America's World War II generation, The Reawakening of Mage Axum is a moving historical novel about love, loss, faith, identity, and the courage to honor a second chance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997992735
• ISBN13: 9780997992731
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: R. R. Bowker
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"