Steelfated

For most, death is an ending. But for Morgain Muirdoch, it's a dangerous new beginning.

As the second-born daughter of House Muirdoch, she was sworn at birth to serve for a decade among the Steelfated, the elite warriors who are the front line of defense against the deadliest threat the Tuathan Highlands have ever faced, the Mistbourne. So, as custom decrees, she attends her funeral on her seventeenth birthday.

Once enlisted, she finds her family name means next to nothing, and old rivalries, even less. Serving alongside, and often above, the nobility are veterans, criminals, the destitute, and even a handful of foreigners.

When an attempt at using magic to save a life goes catastrophically wrong, she finds the very threads of her life entangled with those of Radyn Halstraad, the son of her family's ancestral rivals. Unable to find a solution to the problem among the Steelfated, they are sent seeking outside help. Eventually, the Fey Court offers a solution, albeit a solution no mortal has undergone in almost three millennia. But bargaining with the Fey might prove to be more dangerous than dying.