Reality is just an operating system waiting to be hacked.
Adrion was a senior systems architect who died at his keyboard. He expected oblivion. Instead, he rebooted in the body of Nia von Eisenwald, a frail twelve-year-old baroness in a frozen, starving feudal backwater.
Nia has no army, no physical strength, and is surrounded by wolves-traitorous family, predatory neighbors, and an Empire crumbling under legacy code.
But Nia has an advantage. She sees the world's hidden interface. Magic isn't mystical; it's syntax. Ley lines aren't sacred rivers; they are a power grid waiting to be tapped.
To survive, the new Baroness won't just have to learn the rules of this brutal new world-she'll have to rewrite them.
This special edition box set contains the entire "System Initialization" arc (Books 1-3) of the 12-book Code and Crown Light Novel series.
INCLUDED IN THIS SET:
Start with THE AWAKENING (Book 1): Nia initializes in a failing territory. Facing imminent starvation and bankruptcy, she must apply modern chemistry to agriculture and debug the estate's finances before winter comes.
Continue in THE YOUNG BARONESS (Book 2): The system is fighting back. When a rival lord uses legal exploits and biological warfare to destroy her, Nia responds by building the world's first magical-industrial complex, turning her land into a fortress of automated constructs and economic power.
Conclude the arc in THE CAPITAL (Book 3): Nia leaves her sandbox to enter the production environment: The Imperial Capital. She discovers the Empire's OS is corrupted by a usurper Prince who has gained admin access. Nia must execute a desperate logic bomb to crash the system before he deletes everything she loves.
Experience the beginning of the epic journey where an engineer drags a dark fantasy world into an industrial revolution, kicking and screaming.
