"I thought I understood my love for her when it was one-sided. In truth, it was comparing the heat of a candle to that of a forge’s heart. It pounded the steel of my soul into shape. The need to ensure her safety outweighed my own happiness. Loving her was worth defying the will of our Gods. Our love was worth deserting the hopes of my people to save her.For love, for her love, I would walk myself across the waters that claimed her and drag her back to Madani by her shorn hair. Roseen was worth the wait I had endured to win some part of her heart, and now I would pay any price to lengthen this lifetime with her."Cade spent his life as a smith forging steel simultaneously the strongest and most intricate in the land, his passion fueled by his love for Roseen as his magic was fueled by the Gods. After Roseen's return to Madani, her marriage to Cade, and her subsequent return to Sheelin--the magic isle where she received her calling as a prophet of the Goddess Bas--Cade can only wait in Madani and hope for her return.As before, he is not idle.The force of Liand's crusade has crashed upon Madani's shores, and it is Cade's weapons and heart that must protect his people. With a new path before him, one as dangerous as Roseen's calling, Cade is torn to wait for her and to accept the charge given him by his God.Taken to Lorilindo, the seat of Liand's power, Cade must forge not only the Sunsword but something new, his destiny.
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