What the Marked Owe: Virelast, Book2
The bond saved them.
Now they have to learn how to live with it.
Six weeks after surviving Vasryn's failed ritual, Maelis Corvant and Roan Vesric have finally begun building a life together. Roan's damaged bond is stable. Maelis's mysterious fragment is no longer separate from him. And for the first time, they have something neither of them expected to have: a future.
But stability is not the same as understanding.
When strange disturbances begin passing through the bond they share, Maelis and Roan discover that what they created requires something neither of them knew to give it. An ancient record points toward a forbidden form of bond-work, forcing them to learn the difference between simply surviving a bond and deliberately choosing to sustain one.
Then Corvin disappears.
His attempt to infiltrate Vasryn's remaining network leads to the discovery of another Marked family being drawn into the same kind of bargain that once changed Maelis's life. As the search takes them beyond the capital and into the poorer, overlooked reaches of Virelast, Maelis begins to see a pattern that reaches far beyond Vasryn himself.
Someone else has been building something.
Someone with a plan that has been unfolding for years.
And this time, Maelis and Roan are no longer fighting simply to survive. They are fighting to decide what the Marked owe one another, what the powerful owe the forgotten, and what they themselves are willing to sacrifice for the people they have chosen to protect.
Because some bonds are inherited.
Some are imposed.
And the ones we choose may be the most costly of all.
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