Star Forged Blade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798278663928)

When a star falls from the heavens, it does not bring hope.

It brings war.

Eighteen-year-old Katana Ravn is a warrior of the Astraede-a forge-born people sworn to guard an ancient power bound to the sky. Trained to hold the line and obey the old oaths, Katana expects a life of discipline and steel. What she does not expect is the return of a buried enemy who remembers every grave ever filled.

As undead Wolfborn begin to stalk the forests and abduct the living, the Astraede try to contain the threat. They fail. The war refuses to stay small.

Hunting alone beyond the reach of command, Katana learns that the enemy's general, Fenrath the Devourer, is not fighting for territory or conquest. He is testing limits-forcing impossible choices, turning restraint into weakness, and pushing Katana toward a line she will not cross.

When the sea-born Talanthe reshape tides and coastlines to halt the spread of death, all sides are driven toward a single battleground. There, Katana must decide where the war will end-and what it will cost to hold that choice.

But some powers were never meant to be wielded.

As the truth of Katana's bond to the fallen star is revealed, the very force meant to stop death begins to bleed through her. The center collapses. Old oaths fracture. And far beneath the world, something long buried stirs and breathes again.

Star-Forged Blade is the first book in The Star-Forged Saga, a mythic epic fantasy about discipline over domination, the cost of restraint, and what happens when the only way to win a war is to decide how it ends.