He was her shadow. Her sword. Her forbidden protector.
Now, he's the warlord who came back from the dead to own her.
Sir Toren Darrow was once the King's Blade—loyal beyond reason, deadly beyond mercy. Betrayed, accused of regicide, and cast into the catacombs to die, he should have been lost forever.
But monsters don't die. They rise.
Seven years later, Princess Elowen lives in exile, hiding from those who destroyed her family. She believes Toren is long dead. She prays he is. Because if he survived the catacombs...
he didn't come back unchanged.
Toren returns cloaked in black steel, leading a brutal army of outcasts. His code is carved in blood. His heart is ash.
And he has come to reclaim his final vow: her.
But Elowen is no longer the sheltered girl who wept when he bled. She's defiant, clever—and hiding a dark power of her own.
In a ruined fortress, locked in a war of wills, old desires reignite—and the line between punishment and passion begins to blur.
Obsessive. Gothic. Violently tender.
For fans of brutal devotion, broken knights, and heroines who bite back.
Even broken vows bind tighter than chains.
