Description
She was sent to the fortress as a bride. The Crown intended her to become evidence that no one would ever find.
Esvira Nhal has spent years serving a kingdom whose ledgers hide more than they reveal. When her own name appears among the condemned, she is delivered to Gloamhold as the next bride of Drazhen Orvek—a feared ruler bound to the darkness beneath his fortress. The women sent before her never came home.
Esvira arrives with a plan: survive, uncover the truth, and make the Regent answer for every vanished name. But Drazhen is neither the simple monster of court legend nor a man she can afford to trust. His power carries a price. Her blood carries a secret. And the kingdom’s oldest vows were written to conceal a crime that has outlived generations.
As the fortress yields its records and its people reveal what they have endured, an uneasy alliance deepens into a dangerous attachment. To save the living—and honor the women erased from history—Esvira must decide which promises deserve to survive and which must be broken.
A dark, slow-burn fantasy romance about forbidden power, political betrayal, chosen love, and reclaiming the right to choose your own future. Book One in The Nightweft Accord.
