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Urthforge: Heartbound series
At Urthforge Academy, every recruit is measured, marked, and molded for a purpose they did not choose.
Ember Rose has spent her life surviving the echoes of other people’s pain. But when her gift exposes the Academy’s secret harvest, recruits transformed into sacrifices, guardians twisted into weapons, and bloodlines reduced to inventory, survival becomes impossible without resistance. The only path forward lies with Kross, the Ironstride boy linked to her by a bond neither of them understands, and with the mismatched family they’ve built around themselves.
Together they uncover a history the Institute the Founders’ true covenant, the gods behind the branches, and the terrible price of keeping power under control. But the deeper Ember goes, the more the line between love and fate begins to blur. If the bond is real, can it survive what the world demands of them? And if it isn’t, what will be left when the truth finally arrives?
*Content Warnings*
- Violence
- Death
- Human sacrifice
- Dark magic and rituals
- Body horror / transformation
- Institutional abuse and control
- Emotional trauma
- Curses
- Survival themes
- *WLW (women-loving-women) representation*
- *Explicit sexual content (open-door sexual scenes)*
Ember Rose has spent her life surviving the echoes of other people’s pain. But when her gift exposes the Academy’s secret harvest, recruits transformed into sacrifices, guardians twisted into weapons, and bloodlines reduced to inventory, survival becomes impossible without resistance. The only path forward lies with Kross, the Ironstride boy linked to her by a bond neither of them understands, and with the mismatched family they’ve built around themselves.
Together they uncover a history the Institute the Founders’ true covenant, the gods behind the branches, and the terrible price of keeping power under control. But the deeper Ember goes, the more the line between love and fate begins to blur. If the bond is real, can it survive what the world demands of them? And if it isn’t, what will be left when the truth finally arrives?
*Content Warnings*
- Violence
- Death
- Human sacrifice
- Dark magic and rituals
- Body horror / transformation
- Institutional abuse and control
- Emotional trauma
- Curses
- Survival themes
- *WLW (women-loving-women) representation*
- *Explicit sexual content (open-door sexual scenes)*
303 pages, Paperback
Published August 29, 2026
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