The Tether

By Reem Al-Azzawi

The wound was never a wound. It was a grave - and at the bottom of it, two people have been drowning for three hundred years.Orla and Talen were the first pair the world ever bent together: fated, certain, two halves of one thing. When the seam tore three centuries ago, they fell into it - and they have been falling ever since, one breath apart, close enough to see and never to touch, alive enough to remember and never to die.Now Saraya finally understands what the grey truly is. Not destruction. Grief, gone septic - the despair of a bond that gave up trying to cross the last breath between them. And at the bottom of the wound, that despair does not feel like dying. It feels like peace. It feels like the sweetest, most reasonable surrender in the world.To free the first pair, Saraya and Kaelen must go down into the grave themselves, roped together by the one thing the drowned ones lost: a bond they choose, breath by breath, the whole way down. And at the bottom waits the last question of everything - whether binding yourself to the world's oldest scar, on purpose, forever, is the last cage... or the first freedom.The fourth book of The Saga of The Gilded Cage - a dark epic romantasy of a chosen bond, a morally grey hero, a slow burn, and a love asked to descend into the one place love goes to die.For readers of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6V2ZRGM
• ISBN13: 9798184670683
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"