The Silversmith - L.J. Claren

Power is awakening. Love is a liability.\n And the fate of the world rests in the hands of a grieving girl who never asked to be chosen.\n Still reeling from the deaths of her father and brother, Ary Gold survives only by sheer will in the icy wilds of the North. But when friends arrive with stories of long-lost magic and a power buried in her newly discovered royal blood, Ary is thrust into a fate far larger than her sorrow.\n The realm of Nyrida is under threat. An ancient shadow wielder is determined to claim Ary’s power and plunge the world into corrupted darkness. To stop him, Ary must marry the commander she’s been promised to—a man whose army could help them win the war—and train to fight alongside him.\n But her fiercest challenge may not be on the battlefield.\n Assigned to s