A palace that counts in choices. A city that prays in chains. A woman who refuses to be written in another man's ledger.

Sold in the name of love and sent down the Veil Road, Esmeralda discovers how Mantana blesses hunger and calls it holy. She knows the doctrine of ledgers and lashings. She knows how Fourin's Divine Order tallies debt in flesh with public displays and captains who call cruelty mercy while fathers look away. Then a Var marks her, and a scent of polished sandalwood with lemon resin and dry spice begins to follow her waking and sleeping, as if fate has a signature.

Tor'Vai waits in Voreath, a palace of black halls and watchful silences where the Var measure worth by choice and consequence. Under the eye of Shade, a silent guard, Esmeralda learns how devotion can be a blade and how claiming a self has a cost. In the hidden places of the court, a witch of the Web names her the law that steadies the king. Want and defiance twist together into a bond that could unmake a curse or break her for good.

Between a city that teaches obedience like prayer and a crown that offers ruin as intimacy, Esmeralda must decide what she will owe and to whom. If the world is a ledger, she plans to write the line that tips it.

An adult dark fantasy of obsession, consequence, and a love sharp enough to cut through doctrine.

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