Before Maeve and the crew of the Blue Phoenix make their desperate bid to reforge the galaxy, each of them were first forged themselves in the crucible of galactic events.

Forged includes four short stories that take place before Crucible of Stars and the rest of the Reforged Trilogy. Suggested order of reading is after Sword of Dreams in order to be familiar with all of the characters involved.

Purity: Maeve Cavainna was once a knight of Arcadia. How did she fall so far?

Little Hawk: A story of honor and childhood on Prianus. Originally published in Sword of Dreams.

Beauty By Night: An art thief seeks to recapture his humanity.

Songs and Sigils in Space: Tiberius hires a destitute fairy and the crew of the Blue Phoenix has a deadly – but profitable – encounter with the Nnyth.