Fractured: The bond was supposed to be unbreakable... (The Covenbound Trilogy)

By C.F. Payne

Three weeks after the Sealing Rite, Briar Vane has learned that being claimed by five people is nothing next to being claimed by a crown.

Virelia adores them. Crowds gather along the garden wall each morning to watch six bonded strangers pour tea. Every drawing room in the capital has a polished compliment ready - and not one of them is aimed at Briar herself.

Chancellor Ashcombe has traded hostility for something far worse: patience. Briar Vane's Conclave file has been flagged for priority collection for years, and nobody will say why. Then a border town burns under Warlord Cassian Drey's banner, and the King finds a use for this son's coven at last. Envoys, officially. A demonstration, in fact.

Six people chose each other completely, magically, irreversibly. Now a kingdom intends to spend them - and the bond is beginning to show where it gives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ52YDBK
• ISBN13: 9798171183349
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"