About this book:

# The Dragon's Broken Crown

**The forge never lies. Neither does destiny.**

Elara was content as a simple blacksmith's daughter, her world measured in the rhythm of hammer against anvil and the honest heat of the hearth. But when a dragon—a creature of myth made terrifying flesh—descends upon her village with riders of shadow, that world turns to ash. And when a mysterious ember rises from the dying forge and sinks into her chest, awakening powers and ancient words she's never learned, Elara discovers she is anything but ordinary.

Now hunted by forces that speak a dead tongue and seek a broken crown, she must follow the echoes of a prophecy written in her blood. Armed with a star-forged sword and a voice that commands forgotten magic, Elara's journey from the burning ruins of Oakhaven to the legendary Silver Citadel will test whether a blacksmith's daughter can forge a kingdom's salvation—or whether the darkness that remembers her name will finally claim the light.

**For fans of elemental magic, reluctant heroes, and dragons that burn more than villages—they burn away everything you thought you knew.**