The Tally of Vows: A Debt of Blood, a Vow Unbroken (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798177097800)

SHE WAS STRIPPED OF EVERYTHING FOR A LIE SHE NEVER TOLD. NOW SHE MUST WIN THE ONE COMPETITION THAT CAN UNDO IT - WITHOUT LOSING HER HEART TO THE CROWN THAT RUINED HER.

"They say a vow sealed in blood cannot be unmade. I intend to prove that a debt can."

TROPES:

• Enemies-to-Allies-to-Lovers
• Tournament / Deadly Trials
• Forced Proximity
• Royal Love Interest with a Buried Secret
• Slow-Burn Romance
• Found Family
• A Sibling Worth Saving
• Political Intrigue & Buried Conspiracy

STRIPPED OF HER NAME. BOUND BY A DEBT THAT ISN'T HERS.

Sixteen years ago, House Duskane fell. Cast out of the cliffside halls of High Reach and into the shadowed caves of the Under-City below, Calla Duskane grew up believing her family's ruin was simply the crown's cold justice, a price her father's failure had cost them all.

She was wrong.

When her younger brother's hand begins to turn the same grey that took her mother, Calla learns the truth: the debt eating her brother alive was never her family's to carry. It was a lie, built to protect a secret far more dangerous than anyone in High Reach ever wanted spoken aloud.

The only way to clear it is the Tally of Vows, a brutal, once-in-twelve-years tournament where blood-sealed magic judges every trial of silence, sacrifice, and truth, and only the victor is granted the power to cancel a single debt, however old, however buried.

Standing in her way is Prince Ademar Ashvane, the crown's own heir, and the son of the family whose silence built her ruin.

HE SHOULDN'T BE THE ONE SHE TRUSTS. HE'S BECOME THE ONE SHE CAN'T LET GO.

Ademar has spent four years carrying a truth of his own, one that could burn the crown to the ground if it ever reached the wrong ears. When a trial built to break Calla's silence instead forces his own confession into the open, the enemy she came to defeat becomes the one person willing to risk everything to help her win.

But the man who orchestrated her family's fall still holds the Concord's authority in his hands, and he is not finished protecting his secret, whatever the cost to an innocent child's life.

Set in the Sundered Coast of Ilyra, where every promise is a blood-sealed law and every broken vow has a price, A Debt of Blood, a Vow Unbroken is a dark, slow-burn romantasy about the cost of silence, the weight of an unfair debt, and the vow two people choose to keep even when keeping it could destroy them both.

This is a story about the debts we never chose, the vows worth the danger of keeping, and the kind of justice that has to be fought for, one trial at a time.