A Vow of Iron and Ash

Silas Ironvale, heir to the Ironfang Pack, was raised to sever the fated bond tying him to Valen Ashcroft, a vampire prince of the most despised bloodline. Their ritual rejection in the slaughter-silent woods is interrupted by mutilated bodies of both species, killed with a poison born of forbidden alchemy. Forced to conceal their unbroken bond from war-hungry elders, they descend into a conspiracy of forged treaties and shadow-magic laboratories. As hunter and hunted blur, Silas must choose between the pack that raised him and the vampire whose cold masks slowly crack to reveal a soul scarred by centuries of sacrifice. The real betrayal waits at the conspiracy's heart, wearing the face of the mentor Silas trusted most. This war will not begin with fang or claw, but with an heir who dares to love the monster he was born to destroy.