Smoldering Hearth

<p><strong>One village burned. One brother stolen. One empire to break.</strong></p><p>Kaelen was never meant to be a hero; he was meant for the plow. But when the golden legions of the Southern Hegemony descend upon the peaceful village of Oakhaven the world of the fields is replaced by a world of ash. In a single morning of fire and blood Kaelen loses his father to the blade and his youngest brother Leo to the Iron Tithe-a systematic kidnapping designed to forge Northern children into the Emperor's unthinking weapons.</p><p>In <strong>Smoldering Hearth</strong> the gripping first installment of the <strong>Sovereign Soil</strong> series Kaelen must lead a broken band of orphans and elders into the vertical sanctuary of the Grey Crags. Armed only with a spear forged from his father's broken plowshare and a fierce refusal to be chaff for the Southern grain he begins a desperate transformation from a starving fugitive into the leader of a lethal insurgency.</p><p>From the claustrophobic silt-tunnels of an Imperial fortress to the heart-stopping ice-slicked heights of the Frost-Spire Kaelen's journey is an epic of resilience and reclamation. In a world where the sun has become a tool of tyranny a farmer's son must discover that the hardest harvest is not of the earth but of the soul.</p><p>The Stone Law has been written. The North is waking up. And the King of the Waste is coming for his own.</p><p> </p>