Unbound: Chosen, Not Claimed. (The Covenbound Trilogy)

By C.F. Payne

Three weeks after the throne room, Briar Vane can still feel all five of her threads - and one of them has gone cold in a way distance cannot explain.

Rook and Isolet run with her. Kaelan and Adaire stayed behind to fight the Conclave from inside a court that would still rather see Briar erased than explained. And Elian's thread does not feel like distance. It feels like a wall.

On the border, Ashgrove's drums come closer every night, and a kingdom too proud to admit it is losing, has no men left to spare for six people it never wanted bound in the first place. Chancellor Ashcombe has waited years for a moment exactly like this one. Warlord Cassian Drey only needs the realm to keep breaking on its own.

To reach Elian, Briar has to walk onto Conclave-held ground and stop hiding the thing ten years of dodging the Sorting kept safe - that her power was never the Conclave's to sort, and never theirs to claim.

Six threads survived being bound. They survived being broken. What is left is the harder question: whether a bond freely chosen can hold a realm together, and what it costs the six of them to find out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ54F8NW
• ISBN13: 9798171187439
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"