Unwilling Sorceress: The Wrong Daughter

Coffee. The beach. A ring. A yes.The rain had other plans.A goddess fishing a spirit from the Reincarnation Pool grabs the wrong one. She thinks she has saved a girl named Mara. She has Jake. She sends him into a world that needs a sorceress, into a body that has already been prepared, and tells him to go forth, my daughter.He wakes in a stone tower as an eighteen-year-old girl wearing a name that still belongs to the woman he lost.The tower has no plumbing. The village has an evil king. Magic is a job he does not know how to do. The clothes are all dresses. The disciple who runs the place will not hear that a mistake was made. She has one answer: he is the Goddess's chosen, and his name is Mara.So he does what he knows. He works. He learns to walk in a body that will not sit right. He talks a blacksmith into building a toilet. He reads until the word transfiguration looks like a way home. He tries to stay a man on the inside while the world keeps calling him girl, and while a barmaid named Darla looks at him like the matter is already settled.The king wants taxes, then a bride, then the tower in ash.Mara was never supposed to be him. The village does not care. They need a sorceress who will stand on the wall.