The Sundered Heights
Coming October 14th, 2026!
Magic died three hundred years ago. The world spirit has been grieving ever since.
Now she’s waking up — and she’s not ready to forgive.
In the island kingdom of Esairdhe, orcs work the forges while humans run the courts. Ellanie Crombie, daughter of a traveling soothsayer, arrives in Braewood carrying a secret she barely understands: a spirit of magic has chosen her, and strange things happen when she touches iron. Ortog Ognar, four-year-old son of the city’s finest blacksmiths, kills imaginary dragons and doesn’t yet know what he’ll be asked to sacrifice.
A prophecy written in the ruins of an elvish temple names them both. A world spirit named Espyrea is deciding whether humanity deserves to exist. And the beasts of the Old World have started coming back.
Across fifteen years of friendship, loss, and hard-won loyalty, Ellanie and Ortog will face sea monsters, corrupt earls, shapeshifters, a crystal giant, and the grief of a goddess — armed with their wits, a belt knife, and each other.
Perfect for fans of Patrick Rothfus, Naomi Novik, and Garth Nix — THE SUNDERED HEIGHTS is the first book in THE MEMORY OF IRON, an epic fantasy about a broken world, the people brave enough to try to heal it, and the question of whether memory can be a mercy rather than a wound.