Soul Sleep

He died at nineteen. The afterlife handed him a menu.

Jake was someone's son, friend, and brother. Then he stepped out of his truck, heard a ringing in his head, and everything went black.

A thing made of shadow and too many voices offers him a choice: be reborn with everything he never had, and forget who he was. Or keep his memories, and be promised a hard life.

He keeps his memories.

In Thren, magic runs on the voices of the dead, the Church burns anyone who sings the wrong hymn, and children are sold to the mines. Jake has a mind full of science nobody here has heard of, and a window only he can see.

Then a class awakens that the system refuses to name, and the window starts counting.

Soul Sleep is Book One of The Hymn Trilogy, a dark LitRPG progression fantasy about reincarnation, grief, and what a person is willing to carry.

Inside:

• A reincarnated hero who remembers everything he lost
• Status windows, stats and skills that grow as he does
• A magic system that is sung, and a modern mind that hears it differently
• Found family at the bottom of a mine, and a Church that wants him burned

Content notes: death and grief, slavery, violence.