GALLOWSWORN

The first bell fails. Then the dead begin to cross the wards.Elowen Marr has built her life on the precision of vows. As a Senior Crown Vowkeeper, she knows that badly chosen words can kill—and when one of Avelune's ancient Vigil Bells falls silent, thousands of lives depend on discovering why.The only man who can help her is Alistair Rook: condemned rebel commander, heir to a forbidden bloodline, and the man whose order killed Elowen's brother.To reach the failing Vigils, Elowen must bind Alistair to her with a lethal custody vow. Neither can deliberately abandon or kill the other without paying with both their lives.But the deeper they travel along the frozen Gallows Road, the more the Crown's sacred protections begin to look like something else entirely. Hollows stalk the broken wards. Old records refuse to match the truth. And the enemy Elowen swore never to forgive may be the only person she can trust.Because some vows protect a kingdom.Others feed on it.