Silversmith – LJ Claren (2026)

Ary Gold was born to save the world, but falling in love may destroy it. Still reeling from the mysterious deaths of her father and brother, Ary survives by sheer will in the icy wilds of the North. When strangers arrive with stories of long-lost magic, she is drawn into a destiny far greater than her grief. The realm of Nyrida is threatened by an ancient wielder of shadow determined to plunge the world into corrupted darkness, and Ary is the only person who can stop him. They say she has royal blood, that magic runs through her veins and that she is already promised in marriage to a powerful commander whose army is her only hope of winning the coming war. Yet her greatest challenge will not be found on the battlefield. The man assigned to train her as a warrior is cloaked in violence and secrets: cold, arrogant and maddeningly unreadable, he is not her betrothed, but he may be her undoing. Ary cannot resist the impossible attraction growing between them. As shadows close in, she must choose between following her destiny and risking everything for a love as wild and dangerous as the power awakening within her. The fate of the world rests in the hands of a grieving girl who never asked to be chosen.