Vow of Thorns

A Forced-Alliance, Enemies-to-Lovers Romantasy — Book One of the Vow-Bound Trilogy

Publisher: Webspace Press Language: English Format: Ebook

Forced into a magically binding marriage to end a generations-old war, vow-binder Wren Ashcombe and enemy general Kael Virell can't survive breaking each other's trust — the magic that seals their union punishes betrayal with real, physical consequence. As a plot against both kingdoms unfolds, the only way to survive it is to stop treating each other like the enemy.

Wren Ashcombe has spent eleven years using her magic to protect people who can't protect themselves. She never expected her next binding to be her own marriage — sealed at a queen's command, to the one man her kingdom has spent a decade learning to fear. When Wren, both officiant and bride, seals their vow, it becomes something neither crown anticipated: a Rootbound Vow, unbreakable short of death, with a channel between them that carries fear and pain across any distance.

A slow-burn, closed-door enemies-to-lovers romantasy with forced proximity, a magic system with real teeth, and a hard-won happily-ever-after — Book One of the Vow-Bound Trilogy, with a series hook into Book Two.

Read a sample — Chapter One

The vow had barely settled over the girl's shoulders when her mother started crying, and Wren Ashcombe knew — the way she always knew, the way she'd known since she was twelve years old and calling briar-light out of her own veins for the first time — that this one, at least, would hold. "There," she said, and let the thread of magic slip from between her palms. The thorn-vine had wrapped twice around each of their wrists, hers and the boy's, thin as embroidery silk and the color of old moonlight, and where it had pricked the skin a single bead of blood welled on each side before the vine sank in and vanished, leaving nothing behind but a faint silvery scar in the shape of a bramble stitch. The boy — Tomas, twelve years old, apprenticed three streets over to a coppersmith who'd been shorting his wages for a year — turned his wrist over and stared at it like it might bite him. "That's it?" he said. "That's all?"

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