The Fifteenth Fold (The Smith’s Crown Book 1) Kindle Edition

The Fifteenth Fold — Book One of The Smith's CrownAkimai Arelaine is thirteen years old and the Crown Prince of a kingdom hidden in the western mountains.Ironton has kept its secret for generations: their steel is folded to a density no other nation can match. But Akimai is stuck three folds short of his birthright, and no amount of training inside the mountain is closing the gap. Convinced the answer lies somewhere beyond everything he knows, he convinces his father to let him leave — alone, disguised as an ordinary apprentice, heading east into a world that has no idea he exists.He lands in Millhaven, a small border town in desperate need of a blacksmith. What he finds there is more than work. There's Rowan, the mayor's son who offers friendship with no questions attached. There's Lira, a sharp-eyed young merchant who has survived harder things than one mysterious smith's secrets. And there's a civil war creeping closer every day, about to make Millhaven the wrong kind of important.Akimai came to find the fifteenth fold. He didn't expect to find out what it actually requires.The Fifteenth Fold is a coming-of-age fantasy about craft, identity, and the difference between excellence and wisdom — for readers who love quiet heroes forced into anything but quiet circumstances. Read more