Before the Blade is a free prequel novelette to Blade and Bone — the story of Astrid at the beginning, when she still had everything she was going to lose.
She grows up alongside Leif, her oldest friend and the person she slowly realizes she loves. She trains under a weapons master who rebuilds her fighting style from the ground up. She swears a shield-oath with Sigrid, the girl who sits with her in the mud after her father’s funeral and doesn’t say a word.
And then war comes down from the north, and the three of them walk into their first battle together.
Only two of them walk back out.
Get the free novelette and find out who Astrid was before she became who she had to be.
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