Book One of The Shattered Covenant Zara Ashborne has killed for the Temple her entire life. As one of its most trusted shadow assassins, she takes the marks she is given and asks no questions. But her goddess is going quiet, and the shadows that have always answered her call are beginning to hesitate. Caelen Soldaryn commands the Legion. He does not believe in coincidence, and he does not believe in fate. He believes in order, in the empire, and in the gods who have underwritten it for five hundred years. He stops believing in all of it the night the bond marks him. A god-bond across bloodlines is impossible. The Temple has spent centuries ensuring it stays that way, because Vessels who bond become ungovernable. When the mark appears on both of them simultaneously, what they uncover in the cult's underground archives does not just threaten their lives. It dismantles everything they were trained to protect. The gods are not fading. They are being hunted. And two dying gods chose their best Vessels for each other, encoding a final act into both of them before they could be stopped. Now the Temple wants them dead. The High Consul has deployed his own hunters. And the only thing standing between the empire and the systematic murder of the divine is an irreversible choice two people have not yet made. BOUND IN ASH is the first book in The Shattered Covenant series. Dark, action-driven romantasy featuring fated mates, a forbidden bond, a crumbling empire, and a love story built on honesty and full information.