The Black Ledger Bond

The execution blade is already at Mara Voss’s throat when black ink crawls across her palms: thirty days until she dies—bound to the cold enforcer ordered to kill her. Framed for murdering a council heir and stripped of her powers, Mara is forced into a Black Ledger Bond with Kael Mercer, making every wound she suffers tear through his body while his stolen strength floods her veins. To clear her name, they must hunt through expanding rifts, slaughter mutated beasts, and level up before the city swallows them whole. But Kael is hiding one final order: when the thirty days end, he must execute Mara himself—even if she proves innocent. The real killer is still giving orders from inside the council… so will Mara trust the man destined to kill her, or destroy the bond and let them both be consumed?