The Warden's Last Memory

Riven Holt has Mara Vey pinned against the wall when stolen magic wakes beneath their skin. The same words burn across both wrists: One of you dies before dawn. Mara is marked as the city’s next sacrifice, and Riven is the only spellbreaker who can sever the living contract inside her veins. But he has orders to deliver her to the council—and every time he saves her, the contract steals one of his memories. The more Mara uses him to escape, the more Riven forgets why he hates her… and the harder it becomes for either of them to let go. When the contract names Riven a traitor and demands one final life, will Mara sacrifice the man she was born to hate—or let the entire city’s fate be rewritten in blood?