The Dead King's Son: King Protocol, Book One

Six years ago, Aerik Skael left the kingdom to get away from his father. Now his father is dead - and considerably more talkative about it.Summoned home for the funeral, Aerik finds a sovereign machine buried beneath the palace still running his father's mind: dry, imperious, eight centimeters tall, and absolutely certain his own brother murdered him. There's just one problem. The dead king edits his own memory. He is the victim, the only witness, and a confessed liar - all at once.With a lawyer who trusts nothing, an ex who trusts him least of all, and an uncle whose crime keeps looking more like mercy the closer Aerik gets, every answer costs something. And the deeper Aerik digs, the clearer it becomes that his father wasn't only hiding a murder. He was hiding a plan. One with Aerik's name on it.The Dead King's Son is Book One of the Dead King Protocol.