There Is One Last Chance

Michael Mores was tired. The perfect student. The dutiful son. The silent struggler. No one saw the cracks beneath his quiet smile or the ancient circle he drew in the dark. In a forgotten ritual, Michael offers everything, his soul, his identity, his place in the world. In return, he asks for a replacement. Someone who might succeed where he had failed. Someone who might want to live. Far away, on modern-day Earth, a lonely reader vanishes mid-page his soul pulled into a world not his own, waking in the body of a stranger named Michael. Now inhabiting a life full of secrets, expectations, and hidden grief, the new soul must navigate the unfamiliar halls of Arkenridge Academy, a world on the brink of industrial magic and something far darker. Haunted by fragments of the past, stalked by a Reaper who never forgets, and watched by something older than time itself, he begins to uncover the truth behind the ritual that brought him here. But power always has a price. And second chances aren’t given, they’re taken. As the cracks in the world widen and forgotten contracts stir, he’ll have to decide, Is he willing to carry the burden Michael left behind? Or will he vanish too, like a story never finished?