Bound to the shadow

She ran from the voices… straight into the arms of darkness.

Isla was never meant to reach the Rift. Never meant to awaken the magic buried in her blood. And never meant to cross paths with Lucian Veyrhal, the merciless Lord of Shadows.

He came to kill her.

Instead, he bound her.

A forgotten Ancient Pact awakens, forging an unwanted soul bond between them. Now Isla’s life is tethered to the most dangerous being alive. If he falls, she dies. If he harms her, the pain returns to him. Protector. Captor. Enemy.

And she is no longer human.

Isla is the last heir of the Elarion, bearer of a power capable of preserving—or destroying—the balance between Light and Dark. A power the immortal Azrhael and his Order of the Pure Void would kill to claim.

Trapped in the shadowed fortress of the Rift, Isla is caught between two impossible fates:

the cold, absolute protection of the man who owns her bond…

or the reckless promise of freedom offered by a rebel willing to burn the world to save her.

In a world where ancient magic is waking, shadows remember old wars, and love may be the most dangerous force of all, Isla must decide:

Submit to the darkness…

or become the spark that shatters it.