Runebound Outcast

Mira’s blade is pressed against my throat, seconds away from executing me for a crime her noble masters framed me for—until the forbidden rune in my chest wakes up, devouring her lethal strike and binding us together in blood. She is the city’s most ruthless enforcer sworn to see me hang; I am the penniless fugitive growing terrifyingly stronger with every wound, curse, and execution order they throw at me. Forced to run through the blood-slicked underworld as targets of the same corrupt elite, every breathless touch and stolen heartbeat between us blurs the line between deadly rivals and desperate accomplices. When the judgment tower demands my public slaughter at dawn, will she drive her steel through my heart to save her own skin—or burn the entire city