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After the battle with the Titans, time itself was rewritten.
Toby Domzalski now carries the Amulet of Daylight.
Arcadia is safe.
The war is finally over.
So why does Jim Lake Jr. feel like the story was never meant to end this way?
Haunted by memories of a timeline no one else remembers, Jim watches destiny unfold without him—until strange cracks begin to form in magic itself, and a hidden darkness rises that should not exist in this new future.
If Toby was always meant to be the Trollhunter…
why does the world feel so broken?
To protect the friend who took his place, Jim must step out of the light and into the shadows—
because saving Arcadia this time may require risking the destiny that was stolen…
and becoming something far more dangerous than a hero.

Chapter 1