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Bound To The Bloodborn King - A Throne of Blood and Witness #972109

di Timdall Skies

TIMDALL SKIES

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The king was crowned in blood and cursed before dawn.
The healer was summoned to save him and became the thing his enemies needed most.
Neither of them chose the tether that bound their blood together.
Both of them will have to choose what to do with what it shows them.

King Orvane Vael died in his throne room on a night when no one entered and no one left. Sixteen guards lay dead beside him not from blades, not from poisons, but with their eyes open and their memories stripped clean. Whoever murdered the Bloodborn king came not only to kill. They came to erase the witnesses.

Prince Caedrin Vael rides through the night to a father's deathbed and a kingdom already deciding whether to survive him. He never wanted the throne. The throne does not care. And when he picks up the dagger left beside the body too beautiful to have been made for honest killing, it bites into his palm and drives something ancient and searching into his blood.
The curse does not kill him.
It wakes.

In the marshlands of Mournfen, Elyra Fen heals people with conventional medicine and the careful lie that conventional medicine is all she has. The red cord on her wrist is not a healer's charm. The gold-red light that moves beneath her skin when children are dying is not a trick of the lantern. And the warning her mother pressed into her before she was old enough to understand fear, if a king's man ever says my old name, you run has shaped every choice she has made since.

When the royal summons arrives, framed as a request with the weight of a command, Elyra goes to Blackspire Keep carrying her bag of honest medicine and everything else hidden.

What she rides into is a palace full of smiling knives, a court in mourning that is already choosing sides, and a dying king too proud to admit he is afraid. When she attempts to heal the curse in his blood, her magic does not dissolve it.
The curse finds her instead.
A mark forms above his heart. A mirror wound opens beneath her ribs. A blood tether pulls taut between two people who did not consent to share a single heartbeat and now cannot stop sharing every memory they ever buried.

The Bloodborn king commands. The Veyrathi healer listens. Those two things should not have met. Centuries ago, powerful men made certain they never would again  sealing the last witnesses beneath the Sanguine Throne itself, using their stolen power to make the crown unquestionable.
Elyra is the last free branch of that erased line. And the Order of the Crimson Balance, who murdered a king and cursed his heir, needs her blood to finish what they started.

What follows is not a romance between equals who happen to be in danger. It is the story of two people shaped by systems that needed them silent learning, against every instinct, whether trust can be built in the space between a tether that cannot lie and a world that will not stop lying around it.

The Sanguine Throne has ruled Sablethorn through blood-command, blood-oath, and buried memory for centuries. One healer from a marsh village is about to make it answer for every name it swallowed.

For readers who want their dark fantasy with real political stakes, their brooding kings stripped to something honest, their healers standing at the end of the story not as prizes but as law and their slow burns built on the terrifying intimacy of two people who have already seen each other's worst memories and chose to stay anyway.
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ISBN:
9791224463054
Formato:
ebook
Editore:
TIMDALL SKIES
Anno di pubblicazione:
2026
Dimensione:
2.93 MB
Protezione:
nessuna
Lingua:
Inglese
Autori:
Timdall Skies