Embers from a Forge

When the sun rises over Bree, Léafwyn expects another ordinary day - bread from the baker, soot on her sleeves, and the steady rhythm of hammer and flame. But when she helps a wounded traveller found bleeding in the streets, her life is thrust into the shadows of an old world that never truly died.

Whispers of dark banners stir again in the East, and enemies long thought vanished have returned to finish what they began. The stranger she saved carries secrets of his own - a soldier haunted by loss, hunted by those who would see Middle-earth fall once more into darkness.

As danger closes in, Léafwyn must choose between the quiet life she's always known and the fire awakening within her - a gift born from ancient blood and an Elven blessing long forgotten.

From the ashes of a forge and the courage of small hands, a new story begins in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth - of kindness that endures, love that is forged, and a girl who was never as ordinary as she believed.