THE LEVEL THIEF

He doesn't earn levels. He steals them. Kael Draven has spent four years surviving on a forbidden class that lets him rip power directly from anything he kills, monster or man. Every level in his body once belonged to someone else, and every mark he leaves behind is evidence of a crime punishable by execution. When Inquisitor Sera Voss finds him standing over a dead bandit captain, she has every reason to end him where he stands. Instead, she offers him something no one ever has: a reason to stop running. But Kael is dying, slowly, from the inside, and the only person who might know how to save him is a woman who survived the same forbidden experiment forty years ago, and has spent every year since hiding from the people who built it. As Kael and Sera dig deeper, they uncover a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of the Guild itself, a private initiative decades in the making, and an enemy who understands exactly what Kael is because she helped create it. Kael will have to decide what his power is actually for, before the people hunting him decide for him. THE LEVEL THIEF is Book One of the Reckoning series, a dark fantasy LitRPG about power, purpose, and the price of survival, perfect for fans of morally complex protagonists, enemies-to-allies romance, and system-driven fantasy worlds where every level has a cost.