Heart of Valor:
Storm
Protagonist: Relis Stormborn
Relis has spent years keeping her head down and her expectations low. She is good at surviving, not so good at anything that requires her to be noticed. That changes the night she stumbles into the ruins of a place no one is supposed to know exists — and something inside those ruins decides it has been waiting long enough.
The Storm Shard does not offer itself gently. It bonds to Relis in a way that leaves marks — visible ones — and suddenly the most powerful institution in Sorvane knows exactly where he is and what he is carrying. The Ivory Spire has been hunting the shards for a generation. It does not intend to lose this one.
Storm is the opening of a complete five-book saga. The world is established here, the rules are set, and the first piece of a much larger story locks into place.