The Forsaken Oath (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798315198857)

The Forsaken Oath: A Dark Fantasy of Faith, Fire, and Forbidden Love

In a world where the Church's doctrine is law and deviation is met with blade and flame, The Forsaken Oath is a haunting and lyrical tale of love, damnation, and the impossible hope that sometimes blooms in the shadows. It tells the story of Séverin d'Alvere-a once-revered priest now exiled, accused of heresy not for losing his faith, but for offering mercy where the Church demanded blood. His name has been erased from the scrolls of honor and rewritten in sermons as a warning: "The priest who walks beside the damned."

The damned, in this case, is Asceo-a vampire centuries old, forged in cruelty and betrayal, whose every breath is a defiance of the divine order. Once a scholar, once a man, once a slave sold by a smiling devil in velvet and gold, Asceo lives in exile, bound by a code of restraint and silence. When he saves Séverin's life in the ruins of a forgotten war, a fragile accord is struck between man and monster. But what begins as necessity deepens into something neither of them dares to name.

Together, they are hunted-by Inquisitors wielding ancient relics, by secret orders hidden within the Church, and by a demon whose face Séverin has never seen... but whose voice Asceo will never forget.

As the two flee through forests that remember every drop of spilled blood, through villages that choose mercy over fear, and into catacombs haunted by the ghosts of broken oaths, a deeper mystery unfolds. Séverin is marked by a strange glow after a witch's intervention-a light not of heaven, but of something older, wilder, alive. Nature bends toward him. Fireflies gather. The earth itself answers his prayers.

But salvation, like damnation, comes at a cost.

When the demon who has orchestrated centuries of suffering returns-burning a chapel and slaughtering innocents-Asceo remembers. Remembers the name he had before he became a shadow. Remembers the man who sold him. And in a climactic battle under a sky alight with divine fury and eldritch fire, the true war begins-not only between heaven and hell, but between who we were told we must be and who we dare to become.

With prose that sings like scripture and bleeds like open wounds, The Forsaken Oath is a gothic epic where every silence is a confession, every kiss is a curse, and every miracle is paid for in blood. It is a tale for those who have ever loved what they were told to hate, who have walked away from everything they knew for the flicker of something more-who have chosen, again and again, to stand with the forsaken.