The Last Runesmith

Three hundred years ago, the runesmiths shattered the world. Their ambition split continents, boiled seas, and left scars in reality itself. In the aftermath, the Accord was forged: all rune knowledge would be destroyed, all runesmiths hunted, all forge-fires extinguished forever.

Kira has never known anything but the orphanage at the edge of the Ashfields—the wasteland left by the Sundering. She's clever, stubborn, and unremarkable. Until the day she accidentally carves a rune into a stone wall and watches it glow with power that hasn't existed for three centuries.

The runes speak to her. They whisper patterns, show her connections between material and meaning that no living person should understand. She is a runesmith—the last, as far as anyone knows.

But Kira's awakening hasn't gone unnoticed. The Accord's enforcers, the Silencers, sense the disturbance. An ancient order that preserved rune knowledge in secret emerges from hiding. And beneath the Ashfields, something vast and broken begins to stir—something that was meant to stay buried.

Kira faces an impossible choice: master the art that destroyed the world and risk repeating history, or suppress her gift and watch as a greater threat—one the original runesmiths tried to stop—rises unchecked.

*The Last Runesmith* is an epic fantasy about the weight of forbidden knowledge, the cost of power, and one young woman's journey from outcast to the most dangerous person alive. Perfect for fans of *Name of the Wind* and *Mistborn*.