The Blacksmith is available through all good bricks and mortar and online stores in non-North American regions. With a charge of murder hanging over his head like a sword, understanding that riddle becomes much more urgent… If it had, he might not be a fugitive, the subject of the biggest manhunt in the country’s history. Good sense tells him to stick to beating iron into shape for the residents of his backwater town, and not worry about the king and his nobles pounding Frankland into the ground.īut good sense never stopped Duncan from poking his nose into everyone else’s business. No one does, not even the members of the Royal Guild of Swordsmiths. How is the king like a blacksmith? He has a hammer as well as a sword.ĭuncan Archer has heard that riddle many times, but he doesn’t know what it means. Barbara shows us how to spin a convincing and evocative fantasy story, and suck the reader right in.” “This is the third of the Reforging series by Howe,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG, “and it just gets better and better.

The North American release will occur on 23rd September 2019.

The wonderful cover art is by Catherine Archer-Wills.

IFWG is pleased to announce the non-North American release of The Blacksmith by New Zealand author, Barbara Howe.

The Blacksmith by Barbara Howe