Scale and Shadow: Forged in Fire Hardcover – March 20, 2026

It was time. Finally. Ignis rumbled deep, stretching his front clawed feet forward like a giant dog before climbing to his feet. Jeb had the greatsword in his right hand, gripped tight. The embers along the blade glowed brighter as they felt his adrenaline build.“Well, big fella, you ready to finish this?” Jeb said to Ignis, still in awe of how massive the dragon had become.What if the end of the world wasn’t the end of the story…but the beginning of 17-year-old Jebediah Wayne’s?After a meteor shatters the world and plunges it into ash and silence, Jebediah survives the chaos in a bunker beneath his family’s land– and emerges to a future scarred by monsters, ruins, and war. While searching for his missing family, Jebediah discovers something hidden deep underground: a blackened suit of armor bound by a curse older than time.It chooses him.Now, with a growing power inside him and a dragon by his side, Jebediah is hunted by the Sovereign Accord– a ruthless global force that reveals itself from the ashes to claim what’s left of the world. But they don’t know what his destiny has in store for him… or what he’s becoming.As the cursed armor claws at his soul and the world crumbles around him, Jebediah must decide if he is going to become the man his parents raised him to be…or an unstoppable weapon.Scale & Shadow: Forged in Fire is an epic, illustrated, post-apocalyptic and low fantasy saga with a molten edge. It blends ancient secrets, mutated horrors, and the bond between a boy and his dragon into a gripping saga of vengeance, loyalty, and destiny. This is a hero’s journey for upper YA and adult fans of the genre, a cli-fi thriller, a gritty, high-stakes survival odyssey that contains no vulgar language or sexual content, yet features intense action with fantasy violence and combat. Read more