Echoes of the Heart Stone

Thrust into an unfamiliar world of runic magic, brutal war zones, and deadly Citadel politics, Val is tethered to the absolute last person she would ever choose.

Bound by the ancient magic of the Heart Stone, the link between them is far more than just a spell-it is a two-way physical tether. Every brutal blow and battlefield wound he takes, she feels echoing in her own flesh. But the vulnerability goes both ways. If she bleeds in this lethal new world, the Citadel's most arrogant Prince feels her pain just as sharply.

Lucien is a Prince draped in heavy ink and hidden battle scars. Fighting to keep his throne against a ruthless council, navigating the treacherous politics of the high court, and burdened with the defense of the southern perimeter, he finds himself bound to a woman who refuses to be treated as collateral damage. Val-armed with her silver dermal anchors, sharp instincts, and a fierce refusal to be anyone's pawn-challenges him at every turn and has no intention of sitting quietly in the dark.

As the visceral, shared pain forces them into a grudging, survival-based alliance, the hostility between them begins to shift into something else entirely. In a world where she can't even read the maps, her greatest threat might not be the deadly politics of the Citadel, but the intimate, inescapable bond echoing between them.

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*This story will be updated with two new chapters weekly, till complete.*