He'slife. She'sdeath. Their marriage is the apocalypse.
Kaiser Xavier, the Blood Phoenix, can heal cities with his bare hands — and has spent his life doing exactly that: stitching a broken world back together while the war-hungry Blood Phoenix inside him waits for the moment he stops.
Duty before everything else. That's always been the deal.
Sapphire Secrofantazia, the Raven of Death, did not choose her crown. She suffered for it. She has spent every year since performing the role the Raven requires — cold, precise, untouchable — because the alternative is letting people see what it cost her.
Being traded as a bride to the enemy is just the latest thing the world has taken from her without asking.
Their union is meant to end it.
It won't be that simple.
The war they were born into wasn't an accident. Someone built it. Built them. And the prophecy everyone is afraid of isn't about a wedding at all — it's about what happens when two Ascendants of opposing forces, life and death, creation and destruction, finally stop holding back.
The gods are taking sides. Enemies are moving. And the conspiracy underneath it all goes back further than anyone alive has the courage to admit.
The full first volume, beginning to end. Where the vow is made — and where the war it was meant to end starts to show its true face.
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