Ash and Oath

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Rhys Kaelen, a reclusive chirurgeon in the isolated Enclave of Pyrite, guards a secret more dangerous than the Ashfall Wastes outside her walls. For two cycles, she has kept a hulking, scarred man in a death-like slumber, a beast with a shadowed past capable of unthinkable cruelty. Her nightly prayer: *Stay lost to the waking world. Stay forever still.* But then, a flicker in his eyes, a gasp of air — the nameless terror awakens, his memory a void. Before his primal instincts resurface, before the whispers of his true identity reach his ears, Rhys weaves a desperate lie. "You are Varian, my bond-mate," she claims, her voice trembling, "and this haven is ours, shared in oath." Now, bound by a dangerous fabrication, she must navigate the awakening beast—a man whose brutal past threatens to shatter her sanctuary, even as his growing possessiveness begins to eclipse her carefully constructed defenses.