Lyra Vale is human-sharp-tongued, guarded, and carrying the weight of a broken family. While hunting in forbidden woods, she kills a shadow-beast terrorizing her village. She doesn't know it is an Immortae. She doesn't know it belonged to a royal blood. That single act shakes the Veil. Instead of executing her, Kael Morvane, the cold and controlled High Sovereign of the Ashen Court, does something unforgivable- He claims her. Not as a prisoner. But as Veil-Bound. If the Immortae fall, she falls with them.

When life fucks, you moan.