The Iron Reluctance
Marek Durren wants nothing more than the steady ring of his hammer and the safe lives of Sera Thornwall's children in the village he calls home. But the morning a wounded stranger
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reluctant hero books
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- What kinds of reluctant hero books are on this shelf?
- The shelf holds 6 books, mostly fantasy. Every one is tagged reluctant hero, so you can narrow further from the related shelves below.
reluctant hero on the shelf
The Ember of Aldermarsh
Beneath the salt-lamp glow of his family's cellar, Wren Tarrow charts a world the academy would rather keep buried. When a junior student turns up murdered and his older sister Eda
The Bastard of Ashfen
In the ash-choked city of Ashfen, gravedigger Porter Shadow splits a skull with his spade and finds something that should not be there: a summons stamped in black wax, bearing the
The Ashbound Crown
Smoke stung her eyes before the heat found her skin, and by morning Wren Calloway's little brother was dead, and whispering someone else's name. When the Council of Crowns rides in
The Ash Beneath Her Name
The tavern stank of tallow smoke and old grief, and Elira Vesper had let grief become her only companion. Three cups deep at the Crooked Antler, with Hargun's Wake lanterns gatheri
The Bone Gauntlet
Taren Volk comes over the last rise into Oathfield expecting the village of his childhood, the stones he and his brother Eamon set as boys still marking the lane. The forest has bl