"Gods aren't born. They rise." Algernon Black is the most infamous eighteen-year-old known throughout his world for a prophecy that would make him a god if he sacrificed the one he loved most. Downcast and disheartened, Algernon never paid the rumors much mind, until the persisting tenderness of one particular girl forever changed him. Now Algernon must fight against his own emotions and the weight of the world's expectations as a budding war has his name in the center of it and anyone near him in the line of danger.