Glim is a macabre wisp of a boy who resents his training. His mind churns out absurd revenge fantasies against those who make him suffer (aka, do chores.) Glim talks to the wind, which threatens him with scents of rotting mushrooms, wet goat fur, and perfumed soaps.

Glim decides to run away and destroy his gift of ice magic in the warmth of the southern lands so he can become a guard like his father. He's stopped by Ryn, a gardener who is inexplicably desperate to help, but provokes him way beyond his limits. She also knows more than she's letting on.

Glim's plan to run away goes seriously wrong. Perhaps the wind will stop teasing him and help out for once. Or perhaps she was never real in the first place, and Glim can only rely on himself—and the training he resented all this time—to set things right.

The Hammer Unfalls is the first novel in The Spellkeeper Chronicles. An epic progression fantasy that will make you laugh, cry, and cheer.