LONG BOOK DESCRIPTION Vesren Thorne has been hunted by a living curse since childhood. Born from her grandmother's final act of blood magic, the curse does not fade, weaken, or forget. It learns. It adapts. It consumes every woman in the Thorne bloodline-and grows stronger with each death. Vesren is the last.

After sixteen years of running, hiding, and watching every sanctuary fail, the curse finally corners her. But when a stranger steps between Vesren and the spell meant to kill her, something impossible happens. A bond is formed-one neither of them chose. His life becomes tied to hers. Her survival becomes his sentence.

For the first time, the curse retreats.

Now bound together, Vesren and her unwilling protector must flee across corrupted lands where magic itself has gone wrong, through territories ruled by sentient spells and forgotten laws. The bond between them is dangerous, unstable, and growing stronger-and it may be the only thing capable of hurting the curse that has destroyed her family.

Their only hope lies in ancient archives where curses are unmade, beyond wastelands that twist reality and courts that trade in names, identities, and souls. The curse is still coming. It is patient. It is furious. And it knows Vesren better than anyone alive.

Because the curse knows her name. And it will never stop hunting her.