A Pact Written in Thorns

An ancient Blood Vow was supposed to save their lives.

Instead, it binds Thalen Briarvale and Ysara Vellin through shared pain, memory, emotion—and increasingly undeniable desire.

But beneath Briarvale, they discover something far more dangerous than the magic between them: vowcraft once required equal consequence. No woman could bind another without accepting the same burden in return.

The Crown didn’t invent the vows that govern their world.

It broke them.

Now Thalen and Ysara must decide whether to protect the truth—or release it into a realm that may never obey quite so easily again.