The Jagged Forge

In a world of eternal winter, warmth belongs to the powerful.

Zosma Rook is a blacksmith's daughter from the Iron-Ward, where families freeze while the Frostborn elite hoard heat, privilege, and power. To keep her forge alive, Zosma commits a crime punishable by death: she channels heat from her own scarred body into iron.

When her secret is exposed, she is seized by the Inquisition and taken to the Cryo-Keep, a glacier fortress where rank is everything, weakness is spectacle, and survival is never promised. Branded a heretic and forced into the Academy as a living lesson in failure, Zosma is expected to break.

Instead, she burns hotter.

As brutal trials close in and every mistake feeds the system built to crush her, Zosma must turn her forbidden craft into a weapon - or vanish into the ice like so many others before her.

The Jagged Forge is a YA dark academy fantasy filled with forged power, frozen cruelty, and a heroine who hits back like a hammer on steel.