Fantasy book about orphan that learns magic from old lady

[Chase Eller]

Okay I have googled and googled until my brain is broken.

The first book of the story begins in a small village where a teen is working as a squire for a knight when the village is attacked by the emperor(I think he was, dark lord empire feeling) and the teen runs to save himself. During walk through windswept field a storm comes upon him and he is hit by lightning. Later wakes up found by lady who agrees to teach him the use of magic as he should not have survived the strike. (later surprise old lady is grandmother) Sends him on quest which he completes with help of new found friends that he meets along the way and ends up taking the friends in cause their village is attacked by the evil emperor dude as well. I have been looking for days on this and haven't been able to find anything. I read it a few years ago using kindle unlimited but its not in my history on there as I changed amazon accounts since then and don't have access to the other one. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I loved this trilogy and would love to get it again and re-read it as it helped me deal with a lot that was going on in my life at the time.

[Mai]

This one that came up in a search is a "maybe": The Lightning Rod by C.S. Ratliff. It's the first book of the Gnariam's Fate trilogy.

The reviews mention some details that match but I couldn't find anything about his grandmother. It also sounds like he worked in a farm rather than being a squire. But just in case!

If it's not this trilogy, can you be a bit more specific about when you read it? 5 years ago? 10? Less?

[Capn]

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... if Mai didn't already hit on it. :)

Please let us know if her guess was correct or not.