The Jeweler’s Hollow Ring: Book II of The Eternal Craft

A blacksmith fleeing his sins. A siren cast out by her monster. An alliance forged in the heart of a storm that will either temper their souls or shatter them completely.

The Blacksmith is a man running from a lifetime of forging weapons for a master he grew to despise. When he witnesses the Alchemist’s beautiful, broken daughter, the Siren, cast into the mud like refuse, he makes a choice that will seal both their fates. He spirits her away from the corrupt valley of Grey Hollow, plunging them into the depths of the Bramblewood, a forest that breathes with ancient magic and hides even older dangers.

Hunted by the Alchemist’s relentless, hooded Servants, the unlikely pair must forge a bond from necessity and desperation. But the forest is a crucible, and its trials—a silver stag of myth, a pool that reflects their deepest regrets, a labyrinth that feasts on fear, begin to awaken a terrifying and magnificent power within the Siren. It is a power her father tried to poison from her blood, a fire that could make her a queen or a monster. The Blacksmith burdened by the brutal truths of her past, becomes the keeper of secrets that could save her or destroy the fragile trust they have built.

From the shadows of the woods to the gilded, treacherous heart of an empire in New Emberstone, their flight for survival becomes a deadly game of power and deception. As enemies old and new close in, they discover that the greatest danger may not be the assassins at their heels, but the very nature of the bond that ties them.

A masterpiece is not made in the mold; it is forged in the fire.

Deep in the city’s soot-stained underbelly, a Keeper thought lost to the void wears a mask of dust. He has discovered a terrifying secret: the enemy was never a single tyrant, but the very architecture of the glorious capital itself. To destroy a monster that feeds on faith, he must abandon the purity of his craft and weave a deception flawless enough to be welcomed into the enemy’s holy sanctum.

Three broken artisans—a shaper of iron, a weaver of wills, and a polisher of lies—are drawn together by the gravity of a silent war. They are the grit in the gears of a perfect machine, the hairline fracture in an invincible wall.

When the foundations are rotten, the only way to save the house is to let it burn.

Pick up your copy of The Jeweler’s Secret and discover The Eternal Craft today!

Books by William Kyle Baxley, Jr.

The Eternal Flame Series
The Flamebearer (a prelude to The Jeweler’s Secret):

The Eternal Craft Series:
The Jeweler’s Secret
The Jeweler’s Hollow Ring
The Jeweler’s Third Book

Religious Doctrine:
The Ember Codex

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