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Steel and Spark

Book One of The Sten Saga

by Andreas Selevik

"They forged him into steel. They never saw the spark."

The Wardens promise he'll never be helpless again. But their training reshapes more than skill - and some fires don't stay buried.

A dark fantasy about trauma, transformation, and the price of becoming what you need to survive.

For fans of Joe Abercrombie, Robin Hobb, Anthony Ryan, and Mark Lawrence

The Sten Saga

A trilogy of dark fantasy spanning years of transformation, conflict, and reckoning.

Steel and Spark

Book One

2026

Frost and Flame

Book Two

In progress

Ash and Ember

Book Three

TBD

Titles for Books Two and Three are working titles.

The Northern Frontier

The Northern Frontier is where civilization ends and the wilderness begins. Roads are lifelines, settlements are islands of safety in a sea of dark pine and jagged stone, and the creatures that stalk the deep forest do not negotiate. Winter comes hard and early. Help is always days away. Those who survive learn to endure.

The Wardens keep the roads open. They patrol the routes between villages, respond to breaches, and maintain the fragile chain that connects the frontier to the world beyond. Their protection comes at a cost. Their methods are not always kind. But without them, the roads would fail - and when roads fail, people die.

About the Author

Andreas Selevik lives in Sweden with his wife Moa and does most of his writing after dark, when the house finally goes quiet. He has been reading fantasy since Tolkien's The Hobbit found its way into his hands as a child, and the list of authors who shaped him runs long: Eddings, Feist, Jordan, Martin, Hobb, Abercrombie, Rothfuss, and more.

Steel and Spark is his first novel. He is currently working on Book Two.