The Forsaken Vow
Serene Yvaine is nobody.
No power. No bloodline. No name worth remembering in a world that runs on all three.
The Shadow Ruins — a boundary realm where the rules of the living world stop applying — have been pulling at something inside her since she was a girl. Something with no name. Something she doesn't understand.
When she finally answers the call, she goes alone.
Inside, she finds months of darkness, a stranger named Caius Thorne who bleeds to keep her alive, and a connection built in a place where no one can pretend to be anything they're not.
She survives. They both do.
He makes her a promise.
He doesn't keep it.
What Serene brought out of the Shadow Ruins, she doesn't fully understand. Not yet. It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't glow or surge or announce her chosen status to the world.
It waits.
It has been waiting through every silence, every humiliation, every night she defended a man who had already forgotten her name.
Some things only wake when the pain runs deep enough.
Serene Yvaine is about to find out exactly how deep she can go.
And the world is not ready for what comes out the other side.
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