Ethan Carter spent sixteen years as one of Black Veil's deadliest operatives. On the night of his final mission, he discovers the truth about retirement: no one leaves Black Veil alive.Betrayed and executed by Victor Vale, heir to one of the country's most powerful business families, Ethan believes his life is over.Then he opens his eyes twenty years in the past.He is sixteen again, but this time he is Adrian Vale, the overlooked grandson of billionaire Richard Vale and the nephew of the very man who will one day murder him.Armed with the memories of his former life and knowledge of events that have yet to happen, Adrian sees an opportunity far greater than revenge. He knows which industries will rise, which investments will explode in value, which disasters are coming, and which members of the Vale family cannot be trusted.While his relatives fight over an empire they believe already belongs to them, Adrian begins quietly building one of his own.Every achievement earns his grandfather's attention. Every favor becomes an investment. Every piece of land, company share, and opportunity brings him closer to the fortune and power he once could never imagine having.But changing the future comes with a price. The people Adrian saves begin changing the timeline he remembers, new enemies appear, and the closer he gets to Victor, the less reliable his knowledge of the future becomes.And somewhere between family wars, ambition, revenge, and the woman who refuses to be part of his plans, Adrian discovers something he never had in his first life: people he is terrified to lose.He was killed because he tried to walk away from the powerful.In this life, he intends to become more powerful than all of them.