Into your bones

In the desolate, 19th-century dystopia of Atenev, where a rigid Casta system dictates every breath, gentle druid Espen is forced into a political marriage with Governor Thorne, the iron fist behind the city's crushing order. Her innate connection to the dying natural world, a secret gift she rarely dares to use, stirs with a desperate hope to find beauty in this bleak union. But Thorne harbors his own chilling secrets, his gaze promising both dominion and a peculiar, unsettling desire. As Espen navigates the treacherous politics of his estate and the silent, suffocating despair of a world stripped bare, she must decide if her fragile magic can unearth love, or if she's merely a pawn in a game far older and darker than she can comprehend. Will her heart survive the brutal truths she's destined to uncover within his very bones?