Heirs of the Severed Blade

In a world of Sordid Splendor and Somber Sanctuaries, the sun never sets on a lie, and the moon never rises on the truth.

Lyra Valerius is the golden heir to a crumbling empire. Trapped in a palace of peeling gold leaf and crushing debt, she is a bird in a gilded cage, forced by her tyrannical father to win a crown she never wanted. Her duty is her armor, but her stoicism is a mask for a heart that is drowning in the very light it's supposed to reflect.

Kaelen Thorne is a storm wrapped in shadow. Raised in the brutal, vertical mists of the Lunar Vale, she bears the literal scars of her family's legacy. A rebel in leather and stained steel, she doesn't believe in divine right or ancient bloodlines. She's not going to the Supreme Altar to claim a throne-she's going to burn the system to the ground.

For three hundred years, their houses have been bound by a blood feud engineered by a King who thrives on their division. But when their blades clash over a legendary relic, the unthinkable happens: the Aether-Spire doesn't shatter. It reforms.

Bound by a weapon that only ignites when they are together, the two rivals must flee into the lawless canyons between their worlds. As the line between hatred and obsession blurs, they discover that their greatest enemy isn't each other, but the man who keeps them apart.

In the ruins of a century-old lie, a forbidden flame is about to ignite.