Heir TO NOTHING: The Cursed Vol 1

Ethan Cross was thirty-eight years old when a collapsed bridge took everything he had - a career, a life, a world he understood. He woke up as Aldric Voss: six years old, third son of a dying noble house, in a kingdom that runs on magic he does not possess.The estate is drowning in debt. The harvest is failing. The forge produces brittle steel no one will buy. In eighteen months, the creditors come. After that, there is nothing left to inherit.Aldric has no magic. No title worth speaking of. No one who takes him seriously.What he has is everything humanity ever learned - two thousand years of engineering, agriculture, medicine, economics, and law - stored in a dead man's memory, cross-referenced by an AI only he can hear. And he has patience. The kind of patience that only comes from having already lived a full life and lost it.He will not save the estate through luck or bloodline or a hidden power that awakens at the last moment. He will do it the slow way: soil by soil, ingot by ingot, page by page, road by road. He will rebuild from the foundation up, in a child's body, in a world that has decided what he is and stopped paying attention.That is the only advantage he needs.The Cursed Heir follows Aldric from age six to thirteen - eight years of compound work, one debt clock, one conspiracy uncovered, and the beginning of something the kingdom does not yet have a name for.The first stone has been laid. The architect knows exactly where the walls go.