The Rise of the Fallen Star

Adrian Vale was a master of lies — a silver-tongued lawyer who wielded truth like a weapon and bent justice to the will of those who paid in bloodstained gold. Raised in the shadow of abandonment, he trusted no one, cared for nothing, and served only himself. His clients were monsters, and he was their priest, absolving them in court with venomous charm and ruthless cunning. But fate, ever patient, comes to collect. When Adrian takes on the defense of Marcus Drevane — a sadistic aristocrat with a body count carved in children’s bones — he expects another victory, another check. Instead, the case spirals into catastrophe. The jury sees through the veil. Drevane is sentenced. And in a final act of wrath, the madman buries a blade in Adrian’s side... and karma finishes the job on a cold courthouse stairwell. Yet death is not the end. Adrian awakens not to heaven, nor to the second-chance fantasy world he always mocked in cheap novels — but to Hell. Real. Endless. And familiar. Here, the damned walk trials of their own. Here, lies have weight. And here, Adrian Vale must face every soul he ever helped condemn to Earth’s broken justice. But even in damnation, Adrian is not done. Armed only with his wits, his defiance, and the flickering ember of something long buried — regret, perhaps... or the desire for redemption — Adrian must navigate the infernal courts of Hell itself, where devils prosecute the dead, and the wages of sin are never what they seem. This is the tale of a man who thought he’d fallen — only to discover he had much further to go.