She was hired to kill a god's favorite son.
Instead, she bound herself to him in blood.
Khaira Voss has spent her life as a weapon-silent, precise, owned. When she infiltrates the sanctified heart of the Radiant Theocracy to assassinate Prince Aurelian Vael, she expects death to be clean. What she does not expect is a forbidden blood-sacrament to misfire, chaining her life, pain, and magic to the very man she was paid to murder. Now every wound is shared. Every spell costs memory, flesh, and time. And if one of them dies, the other follows.
Aurelian is no savior-he is a living battery sustaining a divine empire built on ritual sacrifice and lies. Hunted by assassins, priests, and fire cult zealots, the unwillingly bound pair must survive hostile courts and unravel the truth behind the gods themselves. Hatred turns to necessity. Necessity bleeds into something far more dangerous.
Because love is not salvation in this world.
It is the most lethal vulnerability of all.