Coming Summer 2026
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A Phoenix Forge Novel
Book One of the Phoenix Forge series. The first strike on the anvil.
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Cozy fantasy with teeth. Found family forged in fire.
The Series
All those enchanted blades and legendary weapons? Someone's gotta make them.
Fennix Ashborn — Fen to her friends — runs Phoenix Forge, crafting magical arms for adventurers, templars, and anyone else who walks through her door with coin and a commission. She deals with nightmare clients, mages who think enchantment matters more than the metal, temple committees designing weapons by bureaucracy, and heroes who want greatswords but have the shoulders of a scribe.
She's snarky, brutally honest, and secretly the kindest person in the room. Takes on apprentices nobody else would. Sees people others don't. Found family accumulates around her forge whether she planned it or not.
Fen — dwarven master smith, proprietor of Phoenix Forge, allergic to nonsense but not to strays
Cal — her elven partner of three centuries, who still hasn't learned not to touch the good hammers
Grit — goblin apprentice, feral in the best possible way, doesn't know he's already family
Menace — a tressym (winged cat) who has chosen violence as a lifestyle
And a dragon. There's always a dragon.
She calls her forge "the dragon." Her name means phoenix. The blade is what happens when they work together.
A Phoenix Forge Novel
Book One of the Phoenix Forge series. The first strike on the anvil.
The Smith
Ember Ashworth writes cozy fantasy about difficult people doing tender things — found family, quiet heroism, and the kind of love that shows up with its sleeves rolled.
Phoenix Forge is her debut series. She's working on it instead of sleeping.
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Release dates, cover reveals, and the occasional update from Menace. No spam — just fire.