The Thornbound Saga

Lyrix Vireya broke four seals, unmade a god, and lost the only certainty she ever had that she was loved. The bond between her and Kael Thorne is silent now. She reaches for it anyway, the way you touch a scar.

They ride out of Caer Luthar under false names, five riders and a secret. Lyrix is carrying a child made of two gods and two humans, and even the goddess in her blood cannot tell her what that child will be.

The road ahead runs through the harbor towns and shrine cities of the Dominion, where the Flame Circle keeps its temples and its priestesses have ways of seeing what hides beneath flesh. A dying goddess promised Lyrix she would rise again, and told her where. The Order of the Chain built Lyrix to cross a continent alone and unseen. She is crossing this one heavy with child, at the pace of the people she loves.

Behind them, in the keep they fled, Kael's sister sits in her brother's chair. The men around her still mistake her for a decoration. Something beneath the keep has begun to whisper to her, and her own goddess is begging her not to answer.

Lyrix was raised to know that attachment is weakness. Now she has a man who never needed a god to want her, a family she chose out of the whole ruined world, and a child who is the first of her kind. Somewhere along the road a family will be found.

She is about to find out what it costs to keep them.