Vows Written in Blood

<p>When the ancient Circle of Blood begins to crack apart the world teeters on the brink of a ritual meant to erase kingdoms and reshape reality. To stop it the Bloodbound must reunite the shattered circle - and that requires two people who never wanted to be bound at all.</p><p>Thorn Velaris is a war mage feared for his precision and the merciless calm that surrounds him. His runic magic has saved armies but it has also carved scars across his mind. He believes control is everything... until a sacred vow threatens to unravel him from within.</p><p>Isla Fairwinter is a runaway noble girl carrying a power she does not understand - a divine strain of blood long thought extinct and forbidden in every House. She has spent her life hiding the truth knowing discovery would mean execution. Now she is dragged into a marriage-for-survival tied to Thorn by a ritual older than memory.</p><p>Their bond is meant to stabilize the failing magic. Instead it awakens dormant gods and fractures the boundaries between worlds. The more Thorn and Isla resist the stronger the vow becomes. The more they fall into each other's orbit the closer the gods come to claiming them.</p><p>As the Circle re-forms and the ancient powers stir Thorn must choose between the discipline that has kept him alive and the girl who threatens to destroy his fragile control. Isla must decide whether her blood is a weapon or a salvation.</p><p>Because if the vow breaks - the gods will not bargain.<br>They will take.</p><p>And only a bond forged in truth not fear can stop the world from burning.</p>