Sam Winton

Rise of the Arcane Aristocrat

Four books. One complete arc.

The series is finished. Every book below is out now and every one of them is free to read on Kindle Unlimited. Book one is 99¢ to buy outright.

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Book one

Rift Magus Reborn

He died at the height of his power and woke with none of it. A ruined body, a flickering spark, and every rung of the climb still to earn.

Lucian Alastair Eldraine is a minor noble of a fading House, beaten, ransomed and close to death. The mind inside him belonged to the Rift Magus, master of space and time, and it remembers every last thing it used to be able to do. Knowing how is not the same as being able to. That gap is the book.

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Book two

Rift Magus Reborn 2

The noble Houses have noticed him. Court is a duel with better manners, and he is patient about it.

Reviewers single out the court politics in this one: a main character who is calculating, and who rises through the ranks of a nobility rather than flattening it. Goodreads readers rate it 4.42, above book one.

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Book three

Rift Magus Reborn 3

Everything he lost is on the other side of that rift, and something over there still remembers what he was.

He sealed that creature away as the Rift Magus, with everything he had. He is not that man any more, and the arithmetic of it is not comfortable.

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Book four — the finale

Rift Magus Reborn 4

The climb ends. One complete arc, no sprawl, no abandoned storylines, and no waiting years for a conclusion that never comes.

Readers rate this one higher than book one, which is not the usual shape of a series. Book three ends on a cliffhanger and this is already on the shelf, so there is nothing to wait for.

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Other ways to read it

The audiobook omnibus

All four books in one audio edition, and in print. Audio · Print and ebook.

Auf Deutsch

The complete series is out in German as Der Wiedergeborene Rissmagus, all four books, all on Kindle Unlimited. Find it on amazon.de.

Kindle Unlimited

Every book in the series is in Kindle Unlimited. If you are a member, the whole four-book arc costs you nothing beyond what you already pay.