Bones of Stone

Summary

She didn't expect to see old tales and old terrors draw breath.

Over nine hundred years have passed since song and hammerfall rang beneath the snows of Ice-Cloak. The remnants of the dwarves live in exile in the human kingdoms, eking out their survival as itinerant tinkers and farriers. The young dwarf-maid Tourmaline dreams of better things than mending pots for the humans. When horror strikes her caravan, she and a desperate band of dwarves escape into the wild north in pursuit of a fool's hope. Ice-Cloak and its heroes might be little more than old forge tales, but that doesn't make Tourmaline yearn any less to live the life of a true dwarf beneath the stone.