Rilok: The Crimson Pact
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The castle of Ebonreach has stood abandoned for centuries-its towers rotting, its halls swallowed by dust and silence. The villagers whisper of curses and monsters. They say the stones themselves remember blood.
They are not wrong.
Deep beneath the castle sleeps Rilok-the last of the bloodbound. Once a noble protector, he defied the very god who created his kind... and paid the price. His kin were slaughtered. His love was taken. And he was buried beneath the ruins of his own legacy.
Now-
he has awakened.
When Elira, a young healer haunted by dreams that are not her own, dares to enter the forgotten fortress, she finds not a monster... but something far more dangerous.
A king of shadows.
A man who still remembers how to love.
Drawn together by fate-and something older than the gods themselves-their bond begins to unravel truths long buried.
Fate has been wounded.
Time is beginning to bleed.
And the gods are no longer watching from afar.
They are coming.
As ancient powers awaken and a celestial war threatens to consume both heaven and earth, Rilok and Elira must stand against forces far beyond their understanding.
But love like theirs was never meant to exist.
Not among humans.
Not among gods.
And if it truly has the power to defy fate itself...
Then it may be the very thing that destroys everything.
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