In the mist-choked moors of Briar Hollow, a cursed chapel waits with bells that don't ring for salvation-only ownership. Octavia never meant to become a bride. But when a bone-carved ring is forced onto her finger and an ancient vow tightens around her throat, she's dragged into a wedding written long before she was born-one that feeds on silence, devotion, and blood. Her only chance at escape is Aldric: a brutal, haunted groom who should be her monster.
yet keeps choosing to save her anyway. Bound by a tether neither of them fully understands, they flee into the moor where the land itself hunts them, the chapel steals voices like weapons, and every promise becomes a key that can unlock a door to ruin.
In the mist-choked moors of Briar Hollow, a cursed chapel waits with bells that don't ring for salvation-only ownership. Octavia never meant to become a bride. But when a bone-carved ring is forced onto her finger and an ancient vow tightens around her throat, she's dragged into a wedding written long before she was born-one that feeds on silence, devotion, and blood. Her only chance at escape is Aldric: a brutal, haunted groom who should be her monster.
yet keeps choosing to save her anyway. Bound by a tether neither of them fully understands, they flee into the moor where the land itself hunts them, the chapel steals voices like weapons, and every promise becomes a key that can unlock a door to ruin.