

Aurelius spent a thousand solitary years on an immortal assembly line, rolling pills in paradise. A cosmic traffic incident cuts that career short and drops him into the body of James Cross, a mistreated eldest son, pressured into a humble marriage, and apparently everyone's punching bag. What Aurelius finds instead is a wife and mother-in-law who offer nothing but patience and gentle care. For someone who has never once been loved, it undoes him completely. He can't repay them with money or status. So he does the only thing he knows how—he decides to take the whole family to immortality with him.

Jack has always been invisible—the broke, quiet college kid with no power, no connections, and no way to fight back against the people who make his life hell. Then a mysterious ring falls into his hands and permanently fuses with his body, awakening abilities far beyond anything human. Overnight, the boy everyone used to push around finally has the power to hit back. But the ring is no miracle. It is a binding sentence. Pulled into the secretive Star Shield Agency, Jack discovers that alien creatures have been hiding beneath the surface of everyday life—and something far more dangerous is closing in on Earth. Now forced to live two lives, ordinary student by day and reluctant fighter by night, Jack must learn to control a power that grows stronger, darker, and harder to contain with every battle. And as the world he thought he knew begins to unravel, one question becomes impossible to ignore: why did the ring choose him?