The Storm's Eye — John W. Otte

Discover the secrets of Paine, the teacher's son who unexpectedly finds himself at the right hand of the King of the Xoniel Dynasty.Paine would have been content to simply be a teacher in his father's Dynastic school in the small town of Breakwater. But his life takes an unexpected turn when he stumbles into a scandal involving a noble house. This launches him into a world that he never imagined, one where he finds powerful friends and even harsher enemies.Thrust into a life he's not sure he wants, Paine has to navigate shifting allegiances, potential futures, and painful secrets that will reveal truths he never knew about his family and himself. He could be destined to shake the world, but only if he can use the gifts that Storm once gave him.