The Vowless: Severance

They freed her once. Now they want to build her a cage that runs on hope.Liora Hale broke the world open. Now she has to help hold it together.Nine camps. Two hundred and eleven unbound. A resistance called the Fracture, strung across three states on nothing but stolen radios and stubborn trust. It should feel like progress. It feels like a target.Deep in the Appalachian hills, the Council is building something it calls Severance - a machine grown from everything it learned studying Liora at Hollow House, designed to end the argument over vows and unbound permanently. Sever them clean. Or bind them all, forever, to a single center no one can break.To stop it, Liora, Caelan, and a fracturing cast of allies - a brother who chose the wrong side too many times to count, a broker who trusts no one and needs one man alive anyway, a boy who remembers everything he was never supposed to survive - will have to go further than any raid before it: past a warden's cold offer of alliance, past a traitor with an unbearable reason, down into a cavern older than the Council itself, where the very first vow was ever spoken.Some fault lines crack buildings.This one runs under everything.The Vowless: Severance is the fourth novel in the Vowless series - a story about vows, freedom, and what's left standing when the center doesn't hold.