Title: Woven Steel

Author: Max

Genre: Fantasy

Blurb: "This is your only chance, child." Virtue Folwayn said. "Help the church erase this shame, and in doing so erase your own."

A reckoning is coming. As aging knights sit in crumbling halls dreaming of better days, new powers rise bearing terrible new weapons. Whether warrior, mage, peasant or priest, all are broken and forced to worship the new god- commerce. Old ways are rooted up and destroyed, and the pillars of the world shake in a way unseen since the day, a millennia ago, when the moon broke in half.

Kay was trained from birth as a holy warrior. On the day she is set to leave the cloister, carrying the word of her goddess to those in need, she finds that her superiors have other plans for her.

The world she is thrown into is colder, stranger and crueler than anything she could have imagined. But when she finds a new family in the most unlikely of circumstances- a huntress, an illusionist, and two hulking former mercenaries- she discovers that maybe, just maybe, a better world is possible- if you fight for it.

Mature: Yes 🔴

LGBTQ+: Yes

Triggers: violence, suicide, mild LGBT discrimination.

Short Author Bio: Max Vince is as an amateur writer and professional electrician from Denver, Colorado. He likes writing (and reading) stories about sad people with cool swords.