Seraphine has spent years carrying a kingdom that no longer knows how to survive without her.

As High Priestess of Valenreach, she is revered, feared, and impossibly alone beneath the weight of sacred duty. The dead whisper beneath the city. Ancient seals are failing. And every answer she uncovers leads deeper into the grave.

Then Captain Rhyse Valen arrives at her side.

Sharp-tongued, reckless, and infuriatingly loyal, Rhyse was never supposed to become her weakness. Yet somewhere between haunted catacombs, collapsing kingdoms, and the dead calling her name, the soldier she tried to keep at a distance becomes the one person she cannot bear to lose.