Vows Written in Ash

Seraphina Vale has spent ten years pretending she is no one—a quiet restoration artist in a rain-soaked city, living under a dead girl’s name and painting saints with borrowed hands. But when her estranged father, the disgraced head of the Vale crime dynasty, sells her into marriage to settle a blood debt, Seraphina is dragged back into the world she escaped. Her groom is Cassian Draven: cold, beautiful, merciless, and heir to the rival family that butchered hers in an infamous church fire.

Cassian doesn’t want a wife. He wants the truth buried beneath her silence, the ledger hidden in her memories, and revenge for the brother he believes she killed. Their marriage begins as a war of locked doors, whispered threats, and dangerous attraction—but the closer Cassian gets to breaking Seraphina, the more he realizes she may be the only innocent in a city built on lies.

As forbidden desire turns into obsession, Seraphina and Cassian must decide whether love can survive betrayal—or whether some vows are only meant to burn.