Blurb

A final vow. An eclipsed sky. A love that refuses to go out.

The consent-law Elowen Thorne and Cael of Winter fought to build is killing the realm. The Wyrd — the living magic beneath every court — is collapsing without coercion to hold it together. Children's spells are failing. Villages are sealing their doors. And the Summer Court has sent its answer: they will not follow Winter's new law. They will replace it.

To save what they remade, Elowen and Cael must bind themselves into the realm's new foundation — a permanent vow that would make their bond the infrastructure holding everything alive. She is willing. He refuses. Not out of cowardice, but because a binding that cannot be broken is just coercion wearing a wedding ring.

The argument that follows nearly destroys them.

From Winter's fractured court to the dying heart of the Wyrd, they must find a third way — a vow strong enough to hold a realm and honest enough to be withdrawn. Because the only love worth building on is the kind that stays by choice.