A princess dies to deliver a single child to safety. Her father, the king who receives that bundle, does the only thing that will keep the boy alive: he builds a lie big enough for an entire continent to believe.

They call him the Noble Bastard. The story says he is the bastard son of a conqueror, a child of no consequence and no claim. It is a fiction, and it is armor, and it is the only reason he survives his own childhood.

But Ashkelad ibn Sangam is not what the story says. He walks too early. He reads too soon. And the mountain where every king of his blood has gone to meet his future is waiting for him.

Soulfire Volume I opens a sprawling saga of identity, war, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of power.