𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥'𝔰 𝔅𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡

When the Ásgrímsson family arrives in the quiet town of Hollowbrooke, no one suspects the truth.
They say they're from Iceland.
They say they moved for a fresh start.
But the truth is older. Darker. And impossible to bury.

Rúna Ásgrímsson once known as the Red Ruin, Death's Hand, the woman who laid waste to kingdoms is trying to pretend she's human. A single mother raising three sons
All four of them bear the same mark: a black ring etched with a skull.
If worn on the right hand and used to touch a mortal's skin... it brings a violent, inevitable death.

For generations, their bloodline served Death itself.
Now they want nothing to do with it.

Rúna tries to live quietly. Invisible. Harmless.
But everything shatters the day she meets Hana Li, her son's 25-year-old English teacher: bright, warm, human
and the first person in centuries who makes Rúna feel something other than guilt.

Worse:
When their hands accidentally touch... Hana doesn't die.
The curse reacts, but she remains standing-alive, unscarred, impossibly immune.

No mortal should survive Rúna.
No mortal has.

As ancient forces stir beneath Hollowbrooke and the death-bound rings begin awakening, Rúna is forced to confront a terrifying truth:

Hana might be the key to breaking the family's curse
or the doorway to a disaster Rúna cannot contain.

With enemies from her bloody past resurfacing, her sons struggling against the darkness in their lineage, and Death itself watching from the shadows, Rúna must choose:

Protect the mortal she loves...
or become the monster she spent centuries trying to escape.

And Hana must decide whether to run from the darkness
or fall in love with it.