Prologue

The kingdom of Alia had always been peaceful. The people always were.

But inside the palace there were secrets, betrayals and death. This was all because of the second born in the the Briar line who envied his brother. Prince Stephan Briar wanted the throne for himself, but when he went to take it, the throne was already promised to someone else.

The king's son Jackson Briar, was 2 years old when his parents were murdered by his uncle. Somehow the child was unharmed, and no one ever knew the secret.

Stephan Briar was appointed regent until Jackson Briar was able to take the throne.

•17 years later•

It was midnight when Jackson's professor, a man in his seventies with a long white beard, came bustling through his door. The professor, Douglass, desperately whispered for him to leave. He kept babbling on about people trying to kill Jackson.

"Get up. Go in your wardrobe. Now," Professor Douglass halfway yelled.

He did as he was told, just to appease the professor. As it turns out there was a secret door behind his clothes that he (so ignorantly) never knew about.

Not a minute after he stepped into his closet, he heard the arrows as they flew towards his bed. Where he was supposed to be sleeping. Where he would've been if Professor Douglass had never woken him up.

The crazy, old professor had just saved Prince Jackson's life.