
Fallon Báeinach thought she knew what fighting for love meant. Then Dante Regio dragged her underground, blood‑bound her to him in a grotesque mockery of marriage, and locked her magic behind obsidian walls. Above, the Crow King Lorcan gathers his people. Below, a throne‑bound witch plays a longer game, and a general with too many secrets teaches Fallon the sigils that slip her through stone. As Fallon wrestles her power free and tests alliances with enemies who might be friends, the war for Luce reshapes itself: iron crows fall, a princess with cold eyes bargains for a stolen stone, and the Cauldron of Shabbe waits to judge them all. This is a tale of a mate‑bond tested by torture and politics, of a father who refuses to stop hoping, and of a serpent mother who refuses to die. When oaths strike, they cut deep. When love strikes, it changes everything.