The Swordsman's Second Chance

Her father's trade routes were always meticulous—until the final pages of his journal, scrawled in a trembling hand that spoke of fear rather than commerce. Nohr Aria, nineteen-year-old daughter of a dead merchant, inherits more than debts and disorganized ledgers. Buried beneath shipping certificates, she finds her father's last words: a shattered blade sleeps in the ruins of the Fire Kingdom, the only weapon capable of severing curses. He went searching for it. He never came back. An "accide