Between a quiet parish village and a crooked industrial town runs a river that feeds them both.

On one bank stands Saint Brigid, a place of fields, orchards, and steady church bells. Across the water lies Ironmouth, where furnaces burn, deals are struck in back rooms, and fortunes are made in smoke and steel.

The bridge between them was built for iron—but it carries far more than metal.

In the Ashes & Iron saga, survival depends on an uneasy balance between two towns that cannot live without each other.

Saint Brigid grows the grain, raises the cattle, and keeps the rhythm of parish life. Ironmouth consumes it all—feeding its foundries, its workers, and the restless engines of industry. The bridge between them binds the valley together, carrying wagons of produce one way and the wages of the furnaces the other.

But beneath that fragile exchange runs a deeper conflict.

At the center stands the Varn family, founders of the Ironmouth works and reluctant stewards of a town that has never learned the meaning of clean hands. Their rivals are many: the powerful Hollingsworth, the rising temperance movement, the watchful eyes of the Crown, and the relentless pressure of the Federal Liquor Bureau. Each believes the valley should belong to them.

The Varns believe otherwise.

Some stories in this world are told in full—the novels of the Ashes & Iron saga. Others survive only in fragments: memories, rumors, and moments that slipped between the pages of history.

Those fragments are the Lost Chapters.