Stitchwarden: Pain & Flame serves as the harrowing prequel to Stitchwarden: The Ledger Never Forgets, revealing the origins of the entity that will one day haunt generations. Set decades before the events of Book One, it follows a family pushed to the edge of ruin-emotionally, spiritually, and physically-by forces both human and unseen.At its core, the story traces how unbearable grief and generational suffering become the catalyst for the Stitchwarden's creation. As the family fractures under betrayal, loss, and the slow erosion of hope, their pain becomes the raw material for something ancient to take shape. Through fire, ritual, and sacrifice, a guardian is born-not out of malice, but out of desperate need. The Stitchwarden emerges as both curse and salvation, a being forged to protect what remains when everything else has been taken.The book charts a path from devastation to redemption, showing how love can survive even in the ashes of tragedy, and how the darkest moments can give rise to a force powerful enough to watch over the living and the dead. It is the beginning of the legend-the first stitch in a tapestry of memory, vengeance, and unbreakable bonds.