Sebastian Blackwell was typical in all the ways nobody wants to be typical. Directionless, and always putting off the oncoming truck that was his unplanned future, shunting it away in favor of focusing on whatever was right in front of him. Maybe that was for the best, because a freak accident saw him transported to a magical world, branded with a strange mark, right in the middle of an attempted kidnapping of the newly disgraced Oktavia Von Hagelkrone on the road to meet her new fiancée.

Mystical beings called Arkonates, magical Blessings that infuse people with power, something about a Holy Saintess? A Fiendlord? All over his head. All he knows is that he's lost, can apparently kill people with magical ashes, and apparently the girl he saved is, well..

"What do you mean I just saved someone who tried to murder someone over a guy?"