Crow and the Mouse

After losing his family, Harkan overthrows the corrupt kingdom that he served and destroys his enemies to fill the hole left by his loss, however, nothing makes him feel better. A group of people under him who helped him gain people attempts to assassinate him and though they fail, Harkan is critically injured and only survives thanks to a sympathetic citizen who takes him to a cursed region where he hopefully won't be found, but at the same time, he comes across a little girl who gives him a new reason to live.
This book includes a story called Building a Legacy that's based on a dream that inspired this story.