The Unsworn

The cold is over. The covenant is broken. The age of the Deathless is ending.Three years after the night-tithe fell, the old horrors are fading-and a new one has taken the cold north for its own. Hespera fled the breaking of the world with a splinter of unbound power, and out of it she makes the Unsworn: deathless things bound by no oath, who feed not on blood but on bonds, severing the love and loyalty that hold a person together until nothing is left but a hollow, faithless husk.They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be sworn. And the only thing that might hold one is the very thing the world has forgotten how to give: a vow freely chosen, offered and not imposed-a covenant that must be spoken by a binder who may not survive the speaking.Kestrel's broken order is all that stands in the cold queen's way. A voiceless keeper. A half-blood seam the whole world wants. A defector who should not exist. And a stray girl with a cracked voice, asked to bind the unbindable before the dark beneath the world wakes all the way up.To save what can still be held, they will have to choose the cost-together, and with their eyes open.The harrowing, hard-won sequel to A Covenant of Teeth.

Pages: 582, Paperback, Independently Published