Summoned Wrong: The Middle-Aged Survivor

The poison touched Mark Chen’s lips before he even understood why the kingdom wanted him dead. He had been summoned as a hero—but the prophecy demanded an eighteen-year-old virgin, not a forty-one-year-old unemployed coder with a beer belly, two failed marriages, and a bad knee. Luckily, everyone around him thinks he can’t understand their language. For seventy-two hours, Mark must outwit the high priestess who ordered his disposal, the executioner sent to silence him, and a frightened apprentice priestess who may be his only ally. With assassins closing in and the summoning circle hiding a terrifying secret, his best weapons are a fake language barrier, a sharp mind, and people desperate enough to betray one another. When the return gate opens, Mark must choose: go home and expose the truth—or stay in a world that has already decided he should die.