Ten years ago, Jax was just another deckhand on a border trader. Then the Eldwood looked back at him, and nothing stayed ordinary.
Drawn into the dying heart of an ancient forest and the two elves fighting to save it, he learned the cost of love that refuses to choose between duty and desire. When the magic turned, it left a glowing scar across his face and a silence that lasted a decade.
Now the scar has finally cooled. At Black Spire, with an iron legion closing in and the past no longer willing to stay buried, Jax tells the full story for the first time-to the first mate who never asked, and to the woman who carried the same wound in quieter ways.
Some scars are carved by blades.
Others are carved by the choices we make to survive them.
Scars of the Heart is a story of love, exile, and the long work of learning what remains when the armor finally comes off.