The Last Sky-Farm Engineer

The executioner’s blade was already at Rowan Vale’s throat when he woke inside the body of a condemned sorcerer. He escaped with nothing but a ruined sky-island, a wounded storm-beast, and a royal death warrant bearing his name. Rowan wants only to rebuild the floating farm and keep Pip alive—but Lyra Quill, the kingdom’s coldest leyline investigator, arrives to arrest him. Forced to work beside the fugitive she was ordered to destroy, Lyra discovers that Rowan is repairing the very leyline he was accused of sabotaging… and that every guarded glance between them burns hotter than suspicion. Behind the treason charge lies a stolen identity, a hidden inheritance, and a conspiracy powerful enough to starve an entire kingdom. Now Rowan must choose: abandon the farm and claim the throne he never wanted—or let Lyra take him back to the executioner, before the kingdom’s leylines collapse and expose them both.