The Emberglass Oath

She knows every cruel clause in the law. She never expected to become one.

Mara Vale has spent years inside Valcaryn's debt court, filing the contracts that let the Crown seize homes, memories, and names. When her father's debt finally comes due, Mara surrenders her surname to save her younger sister from being taken instead.

Then the contract bites back.

Forbidden magic wakes in Mara's blood, and she begins hearing memories trapped in broken glass. One of those memories proves the kingdom's most infamous traitor, Prince Cassian Ardent, was framed for a massacre.

The problem? Mara was the witness who helped condemn him.

Dragged into the Labyrinth, a deadly royal trial beneath the palace, Mara must survive shifting rooms, hungry glass, and contestants willing to kill for the Crown's favor. Her only possible ally is Cassian himself: exiled, furious, devastatingly controlled, and far too interested in what Mara's magic can do.

Their alliance requires an emberglass oath.

Neither will abandon the other to the Crown.

Neither will trust the other with the truth.

But the Labyrinth was not built to choose a winner. It was built to find an oathbreaker. And if Mara breaks the wrong promise, Valcaryn will not just take her name.

It will erase her from memory.

The Emberglass Oath is Book 1 in the Riftbound Covenant trilogy, an adult fantasy romance featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, deadly trials, forbidden magic, court intrigue, and a slow-burn romance between a debt-marked clerk and the prince she once helped destroy.