The Cruelest Binding

She was healer to a kingdom of ash. He was the King it was slowly killing.Caitlín Veyne has spent her life hiding the fire in her blood - a Dawnbinder's light, illegal and lethal to reveal in a city choking on soot and iron law. One act of mercy in a crowded street ends the hiding for good. She is dragged in chains to the Citadel and delivered to the man responsible for both: King Logan Thorne, sovereign of a court eating itself alive, host to a corruption slowly turning him into the thing his kingdom fears more than it fears him.He does not want her love. He wants her light - enough of it to hold back the void for one more year, one more war, one more breath. She does not want to save him. She wants her mother back, and he is the reason she can't have her.But the iron between them was never just a leash. It was a binding - and bindings do not care what either of them wants.Some chains are meant to be broken.This one was built to be worn.