THE EMBER LEDGER

Some children are born ordinary. Korrath was born a threat, and someone lied to a king to keep him alive. For thirteen years, Kessern the Oracle hid the truth of his adopted son's birth, folding away a Ledger reading so dangerous that the crown would have killed the boy in his cradle rather than let him grow. Korrath knew none of it. He trained with a spear, sparred with the sister he adored, and believed, completely, that he was an ordinary boy in an ordinary district. Then a night of fire and blood at Aldren's Crossing woke something the fold could no longer hide. Within weeks, Korrath's own status screen betrays him in front of the one man in Ondrath he can never let see it: his father, King Draeven Vask, a ruler who has spent twenty paranoid years killing every son whose strength might one day rival his own. Forced to flee everything he has ever known, Korrath finds an unlikely refuge on Greywake Peak, a mountain wrapped in ghost stories and guarded by a pack of spectral wolves. There, under the guidance of a mysterious exile named Fenrisk, Korrath begins to understand exactly what the Ledger has made of him, and what it will demand of him next. But safety on the mountain cannot last forever. A tyrant rules the villages below. A legendary, cursed weapon waits to be claimed. And somewhere south, behind the walls of a throne room that once tried to kill him, the man who raised Korrath still pays the price for saving his life. Ledger of Ash is Book One in The Ember Ledger, a LitRPG progression fantasy series about hidden power, chosen family, and the price of becoming strong enough to matter. If you love status screens with real emotional stakes, mentors worth trusting, and a protagonist who earns every level the hard way, Korrath's story starts here. Read Ledger of Ash today and begin the climb.