Fourth Temple: Forge Priestess
(2026)(The fourth book in the Ten Trips to Ten Temples series)
A novel by Ansel Rooke
I left the Storm Plane with three Blessings.
The fourth will be the furthest anyone has gone.
Daisy carved us into a mine shaft beneath a granite ridge called Ironheath. The Forge Plane. Deep heat, ringing iron underfoot, and a Temple in crisis. Sacred instruments showing fracture lines. Corruption climbing from somewhere deep below. The high priestess watched me with the patience of a woman who’d been waiting for someone to walk through that door for centuries.
Shira’s Flame ran near full strength in the forge heat. Maren found her water in mineral channels. Aera pushed her storm-current through iron walls. The Temple’s senior crafter taught me to read iron the way I read stone.
I’m a stonemason. My instinct is permanence.
The Forge tests endurance. Work that takes the longest.
To take this Temple back and lift the fourth thread of Priala’s sealing, I’m going to weave fire and water and wind and iron in a domain that already feels like home… and Priala warned me that’s exactly why this Trial will be the hardest yet.
Fourth Temple: Forge Priestess is Book 4 of Ten Trips to Ten Temples, a haremlit progression fantasy series featuring stacked divine Blessings, plane-hopping pocket dimensions, a mortal-bound goddess at the hero’s side, and a guaranteed series HEA.
Perfect for readers who love:
• A grounded MMC who builds his power one Trial at a time
• Mythological worldbuilding with plane-hopping pocket dimensions
• Underground iron temples with vaulted halls and red veins
• Priestess harem plus a fated companion goddess
• Progression fantasy without stat panels or status boxes
• Cross-domain ability stacking: fire, water, wind, and iron
• Bond rites that trace luminous patterns along skin
• Explicit, character-driven spice
• No NTR, no cheating, happily-ever-after at series end
Genre: Fantasy
The fourth will be the furthest anyone has gone.
Daisy carved us into a mine shaft beneath a granite ridge called Ironheath. The Forge Plane. Deep heat, ringing iron underfoot, and a Temple in crisis. Sacred instruments showing fracture lines. Corruption climbing from somewhere deep below. The high priestess watched me with the patience of a woman who’d been waiting for someone to walk through that door for centuries.
Shira’s Flame ran near full strength in the forge heat. Maren found her water in mineral channels. Aera pushed her storm-current through iron walls. The Temple’s senior crafter taught me to read iron the way I read stone.
I’m a stonemason. My instinct is permanence.
The Forge tests endurance. Work that takes the longest.
To take this Temple back and lift the fourth thread of Priala’s sealing, I’m going to weave fire and water and wind and iron in a domain that already feels like home… and Priala warned me that’s exactly why this Trial will be the hardest yet.
Fourth Temple: Forge Priestess is Book 4 of Ten Trips to Ten Temples, a haremlit progression fantasy series featuring stacked divine Blessings, plane-hopping pocket dimensions, a mortal-bound goddess at the hero’s side, and a guaranteed series HEA.
Perfect for readers who love:
• A grounded MMC who builds his power one Trial at a time
• Mythological worldbuilding with plane-hopping pocket dimensions
• Underground iron temples with vaulted halls and red veins
• Priestess harem plus a fated companion goddess
• Progression fantasy without stat panels or status boxes
• Cross-domain ability stacking: fire, water, wind, and iron
• Bond rites that trace luminous patterns along skin
• Explicit, character-driven spice
• No NTR, no cheating, happily-ever-after at series end
Genre: Fantasy
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