Thornbound Oath

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In the desolate, mist-shrouded Thornwood Moors, Elara Vance has spent two years in quiet dread, bound by an ancient, terrible pact. Within the decaying walls of Blackhaven Manor, she tended a secret: Lord Kaelen Thorne, the notorious 'Black Wolf,' a warlord whose name once struck terror into the hearts of kingdoms, now lay in a magically induced slumber. Elara, a reclusive botanist, bore the chilling memory of his brutal reign and her family's suffering at his hands. Her duty was to preserve his stasis, not to awaken the monster. But fate, or a forgotten enchantment, shattered her fragile peace. Kaelen Thorne awoke. Disoriented, his memories a fractured tapestry of violence, he was still undeniably dangerous. Panic seizing her, and desperate to prevent his escape and the inevitable resurgence of his brutal power, Elara spun a desperate lie: she was Lady Vance, his betrothed, trapped by a shared, fabricated curse in their isolated manor. She told him they were bound by an oath, by love, by a dark destiny. As Kaelen's formidable will resurfaces, twisted into an intense, possessive devotion for his supposed 'wife,' Elara finds herself ensnared in her own web of deceit, haunted by his past, and dangerously close to the beast she swore to keep dormant. The moor's mists hide many secrets, but none as volatile as the truth she protects, and the love that threatens to consume them both.