The Story ✦ Book One
A graveyard arrest. A forced soul-tether.
Elara Vance is Oakhaven's only active necromancer, and her magic burns neon-pink — the color of peonies, defiance, and seventeen arrest warrants. Sir Kaelen, the Golden Lion of the Paladin Order, has made every one of those arrests. At midnight in Oakhaven Cemetery, he is about to make it eighteen.
Then a forced soul-tether binds them: fifty feet apart, or death. It was designed as a punishment. It doesn't stay one.
Beneath the High Cathedral's golden light, the Catacombs have been sealed for three hundred years, and something rots beneath the city. Enemies, then partners, then everything.
A world where necromancy is an act of mercy, paladins question their Gods, and the line between hero and villain depends entirely on who's writing the history books.