THE RUSTED KNIGHT: BOOK THREE

**The Rusted Knight: Book Three – The Language of Steel**

*War is not won with words. It is won with steel, shadow, and sacrifice.*

After losing everything to the Bone Readers, Poetry—a poor knight who once wrote poems—has trained for six months in a mountain cave. He has learned to kill, to poison, to sneak, and to forge. But when seven cowardly governors march into a peace trap and are captured, Poetry must lead a desperate rebellion.

With only fifty villagers, ten criminals, and a broken princess named Medium, he launches three simultaneous attacks: burn the weapons, distract the palace, and free ten thousand slaves from the Greatest Guard Prison.

But freedom comes at a cost. Varn the Boneless unleashes his air force—the Bone Flies—followed by five thousand Mechanics in iron suits. Poetry fights back with arrows, tunnels, and the courage of the poor.

Even after victory, betrayal waits. The prince, consumed by envy, arrests Poetry and sentences him to hang. But the ten thousand slaves he freed storm the palace. Poetry must choose: revenge or forgiveness?

In the end, the rusted knight refuses the crown. He chooses a small cottage, a silent horse, a tree named Forgiveness, and the hand of the woman he loves.

*Eight poems. One war. A love that rusts but never breaks.*