Vows Written in Ash

Seraphina Vale was raised to be the perfect bargaining chip: beautiful, obedient, and valuable enough to end a war between two criminal dynasties. When her father arranges her marriage to Cassian Blackthorne—the ruthless heir known as the Ash Prince—she expects cruelty, possession, and a gilded cage. What she doesn’t expect is the quiet grief beneath his violence, the dangerous tenderness in his restraint, or the way his enemies seem to know secrets about her past that even she was never allowed to learn.

Cassian agreed to marry Seraphina for one reason: revenge. Her family destroyed his mother, and taking their daughter was supposed to be the beginning of their ruin. But Seraphina is not the sheltered pawn he imagined. She is clever, furious, and haunted by memories that don’t belong to the life she was given. As forbidden desire turns into obsession, they uncover a conspiracy buried beneath blood vows, false names, and stolen children—one that could make their marriage either the salvation of both families or the match that burns them all alive.