Carissa Broadbent

No war can be fought with clean hands. Not even the ones waged for the right reasons. Not even the ones you win. Tisaanah bargained away her own freedom to save those she left behind in slavery, and now she is bound by a blood pact to fight the Orders’ war — with Max determined to protect her at any cost. But when a devastating betrayal tears their world apart, they are both pushed into an even bloodier conflict. Tisaanah must gamble with dark and destructive power she barely controls, while Max is forced to confront everything he has spent years trying to forget — his past, and a mysterious magic he cannot ignore. As ancient forces darker than anything they have faced loom over them, the question becomes what they are each willing to sacrifice for victory, for power, and for each other.