The Shattered Crown

Kaia Blackwood knows how to make things that last.In the quiet northern village of Bramblehold, she has spent her life beside her father's forge-shaping iron, mending what breaks, and believing the world beyond the mountains has nothing to do with her.Then a stranger arrives with a secret buried in her family's past.Kaia's mother was no farmer's daughter. She was a guardian of a lost power: one of seven shards of a shattered crown once bound to the fate of the world. Now the Obsidian Throne is hunting those shards, and Kaia is forced from the only home she has ever known into a realm of ancient ruins, divided kingdoms, dangerous alliances, and a magic older than memory.But restoring the Crown may not be enough.As Kaia gathers allies from across Aethelgard, she must decide what kind of future she is willing to forge-and whether saving the world means claiming power, destroying it, or learning to share it.The Shattered Crown is an epic fantasy of buried history, hard-won trust, and the courage to build something better from what has been broken.