The Forgotten Rune-Smiths of Iron Canyon
A Tale of Fire and Stone

About this book:

In the soot-choked forges of Oakhaven, magic isn't a gift—it's a crime. The Guild of the Obsidian Hand has spent centuries erasing the rune-smiths, those ancient artisans who could weave spells into the very lattice of iron, replacing their art with sterile, mage-crafted sigils. But nineteen-year-old Elianor has her mother's forbidden journals, a mind that reads metal like poetry, and a stubborn refusal to accept that the old ways are dead. When a desperate experiment with a lost heating rune cracks her master's hearth—and brands a geometric thread of black fire into her own fingers—she proves the legends true. Now the guild's inquisitors are closing in, a dwarf master with secrets of his own watches her with sorrowful eyes, and something ancient stirs in the lightless depths of Iron Canyon.

What begins as an apprentice's rebellion becomes a race to reclaim a forgotten language of fire and stone. From the slag-heaps of mining syndicates to the labyrinthine ruins of the First Smiths, Elianor must decipher the cipher her mother died protecting, forge alliances with outcasts and obsidian-handed assassins, and survive a crucible that will either shatter her or remake the world's magic from the anvil up. *The Forgotten Rune-Smiths of Iron Canyon* is a masterwork of industrial fantasy—where metallurgy meets mystery, every hammer strike rings with consequence, and the most dangerous weapon isn't a blade, but the knowledge of how to make one that remembers its purpose.