Fiction · Cinderwake · Book 1
Phoenix Blacksite
Burghald Langford wakes a dead war-forge and has to keep it breathing, room by room.
- Base-building LitRPG
- Cinderwake, Book 1
- 659 pages
- March 29, 2026
- Kindle on Amazon
About this book
Cinderwake is a military station that should have stayed dead. Phoenix Blacksite starts with it being salvaged room by room: air, heat, beds, broken systems, and too many costs arriving at once. Fixing the base is the story.
It is a base-building LitRPG with salvage pressure, crew oaths, and the slow shift from "keep it breathing" to "decide what this place is." Burghald Langford's problem is not just the ruin — it is everyone who notices a weaponized ruin coming back to life.
Reading order
- Phoenix Blacksite — this book, start here
- The Black Cradle — the station is alive, and legally appetizing