Metal Slinger

Rachel Schneider

Book 1 of Fire & Metal

Brynn has spent her life among the seafaring Alaha, an adopted community exiled generations ago, training to become a guard. When a rare visit to the rival Kenta's market goes wrong, she's thrown into a dangerous alliance with an enemy soldier whose presence threatens everything she believes about her past, her people, and a hidden world of magic. As old secrets resurface and the political stakes rise, Brynn's growing connection to her enemy forces her to question where her loyalty truly belongs. The novel builds toward a widely-discussed twist ending that leaves several major threads unresolved.