Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. With her sister’s life at stake, she is forced into a breakneck race with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer in a nearby city. When the events that follow lead to Ziva’s and Kellyn’s capture by an ambitious prince, Ziva is forced into the very situation she’s been dreading: magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination. The forge has always been Ziva’s safe space, a place to avoid society and the anxiety it causes her, but now it is her prison, and she’s not sure just how much of herself she’ll have to sacrifice to save Kellyn before she takes center stage in the very war she’s been trying to stop.