The Breach: Ashgrave Bonds

Politics failed him twice. This time, Voss brings the war to their door.Alarm bells tear through Ashgrave as a breach opens at the Veil's edge, larger and faster-moving than anything in living memory. Having lost every political attempt to break the bond, Chancellor Voss makes his most dangerous move yet, deliberately weakening the wards to force a real incursion, one he intends to either destroy the incomplete bond within or use to force its completion entirely on his terms.For the first time, Isla and all four men face genuine combat instead of a courtroom or a council hearing, and Isla discovers exactly what she is under fire, not a theory, not a political liability, an anchor holding four connections steady when everything depends on it. When the breach finally closes and the bond somehow holds, Isla stands with blood on her hands that isn't hers, certain of one thing: nothing about tonight was natural.The Veil doesn't lie. The man who opened it on purpose is about to learn she knows exactly who he is.