Blood for the Old Gods (Penny Blood Adventures Novel) Hardcover – February 11, 2026

The bell rang like it was angry. And no one was pulling the rope.When an exiled dwarf receives a desperate letter from the sister he left behind—written in ink pressed hard enough to carve stone—he knows the world he abandoned is breaking apart. Rivers are running backward. The dead stare at their shoes. And somewhere beneath the mountain, the Old Gods are stirring from a sleep that was never supposed to end.Brash didn't want to go home. Home meant a name he'd shed, a crown he'd swallowed, and a hall full of dwarves who remember everything and forgive nothing. But Marthe's letter isn't a request. It's a flare.Joined by Seraphina, a paladin who treats duty like architecture; Silas, a ledger-keeper who trusts ink more than people; and Poppy, whose relentless cheer hides hands that won't stop shaking—Brash accepts a king's commission to confront forces older than law, older than stone, older than memory itself.Their path leads through four trials that will test everything they are.Truth, in the wind-scoured heights of the Skybridge Spires, where ancient loom-machines weave words into reality and a single misplaced name can rewrite a kingdom. Restraint, across the shimmering Glass Sunfield, where drought and desperation turn allies into enemies and mercy becomes the hardest weapon to wield. Fire, in the roaring depths of the Sunfield Inferno, where industry devours itself and the price of progress is measured in lives. And Memory, deep beneath the mountain in the Crown of Spores, where fungal networks hold the thoughts of the dead and forgetting is the greatest threat of all.Each Old God demands something different. Each trial strips something away. And as the forces of Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth reshape the dwarven kingdom from the inside out—rewriting laws, erasing borders, turning neighbors against each other—Brash must answer the question he's been running from since he left:Is he a man fleeing his past, or a king returning to face it?Blood for the Old Gods is the third novel from Penny Blood Adventures—a tale of reluctant heroism, moral weight, and the kind of bonds forged when four people walk into a mountain knowing the odds and choosing to matter anyway. It is a story about what we owe the places that made us, what it costs to hold the line when the world is being rewritten, and why the bravest thing a dwarf can do is stop running.Some debts are paid in iron. Some are paid in names. And some are paid in blood. Read more