In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 03
1895
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 03
1895
Translated by Mary J. (Mary Joanna) Safford
Nuremberg, 15th century. A city of vaulted cathedrals and iron forges, where a woman's reputation is fragile as glass and a single whispered scandal can shatter a family forever. Els has been betrothed to the proud Wolff Eysvogel, but her world unravels when her sister's forbidden affair with Heinz Schorlin explodes into public shame. Now the gossips turn their venom toward Els, and she must navigate a treacherous social landscape where her betrothed's own actions have brought disaster upon them both. When fire breaks out amid the chaos, the city descends into further turmoil, and the characters are forced to choose between duty and desire, between family loyalty and their own happiness. This third volume of Ebers' romantic saga sweeps readers into medieval Nuremberg at its most vivid, where love burns as hot as the forges that give the city its name, and where honor is both weapon and prison. For readers who crave the sweeping emotional intensity of Victorian historical fiction, the pages here offer passion, peril, and the eternal struggle to forge one's own destiny against the weight of expectation.
