The Forged: Ashes Before Flame

By Robb Fitzgerald and Rick Fitzgerald

The Forged: Volume 1 - Ashes Before Flame

By Rick & Robb Fitzgerald

In a city where the broken are discarded and the dangerous are remade, one boy survives the fire-and becomes something more.

Locke has no name when he wakes in the dark, no memory but pain, no voice but the screaming in his head. He is the aftermath of an experiment gone wrong, or maybe too right. Recruited into a covert program known only as The Forge, he is trained alongside others like him-each one a weapon carved from trauma, molded by suffering, and pushed beyond human limits.

But when a mission shatters the team from within, Locke and the others must confront not only the enemies in the shadows but the ghosts that never left them. Because something worse is coming. A force born not of science, but of belief. And if they fail, the world that broke them will burn with them.

Dark, cinematic, and emotionally raw, The Forged: Volume 1 - Ashes Before Flame is the explosive first entry in a trilogy about identity, found family, and the cost of becoming more than human. For fans of X-Men, Stranger Things, and V for Vendetta, this is superhero fiction reimagined for adults-gritty, tragic, and unflinchingly real.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6MDQH3Q
• ISBN13: 9798281467636
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"