Born cursed.

Hunted by Death.

Sold to a monster.

Yamay was never meant to survive her first breath, and a god of Death has been making sure of it ever since. Branded and bound by the Warden of the West, she is collateral in a deal she never agreed to.

Then a forbidden portal and a Lihtari prince change everything the gods planned.

They marked her for...

They created the world together.

Now one must break the other to save it.

For centuries, the Dharkeri goddess Yamay and her Lihtari guardian Garan have kept their realm in fragile balance. Then the Keeper of Light moves to destroy the Dharkeri, and the balance shatters.

Yamay goes to war expecting mortal resistance. She does not expect Garan—the...

A crown forged in light.

A bond born in shadow.

Princess Miri of the Lihtari has spent her life preparing to be the greatest queen who ever lived. She knows every law, every border, every king and queen. What she does not know is that the god she serves is silent, the people her kingdom destroyed are living beneath her feet, and the goddess...