An great story with an underplayed hero. Neatly done with twist and turns and a main character that makes the story engaging I wished him to succeed all the way. 
 Summary: 
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 We follow the hero from the broken mess that drags himself back to his hometown, after he escapes the galleys. He gains employment at the castle as the local royess grand daughters teacher. 
 She is the niece of the king and is together with her brother (the heir to the throne as the king can not produce an heir of his own) called to court. Our hero was betrayed and sold to the galleys by the chancellor and is scared to go with her to court. 
 At court the grand daughter becomes engaged to marry the chancellors despicable younger brother. Our hero saves her by using death magic that can kill a person if it is just but will kill the user as well. The hero is saved by a god that put his victim and the death demon in a tumor in his belly. He then becomes god touched and can see that the royal family is cursed, and he find out that the curse will make them take bad decisions. 
 The grand daughters brother dies of an infected wound and she becomes the heir, our hero travels to the neighboring country in haste to arrange the marriage between the grand daughter and the local heir. He needs to be quick to preempt the chancellors. It turns out that the local heir was saved from rape on the galley by our hero but with the cost of a terrible flogging that would have killed our hero if not for a fleet intercepting the galley. The marriage proposal is a success and our hero returns home with the heir. 
 After the marriage the chancellor strikes the castle and runs his sword through our heroes stomach and thereby releasing the death demon and it victim, the death demon takes the soul of the chancellor and our hero soul is dragged along, again he is saved by a god that gathers his soul and put it back into his body he then function as a bridge between the living world and that of the gods and the curse is funneled through him. 
 He survives his stomach wound and is rewarded with the chancellor title and his love. 
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 All in all a good read that I recommend. 
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