Three vows. Three women. One island built on a lie.
In "The Last Ribbon," a fisherwoman bonds to a shard of emberglass carrying a dead man's broken promise — and the only person who can cut it free is the glass-cutter leaving at dawn.
In "The Glass Vow of Ashenmere," a criminal bone-reader is bound to the executioner who was meant to kill her when a century-old sacrificial rite fractures on the altar. Together, they uncover the slaughter hidden beneath the kingdom's founding oath.
In "Seventy-Three," a shrine-maiden preparing the next bride for sacrifice discovers the ritual ink has chosen the wrong woman — and the bond it forges reveals what the furnace actually does to the women it consumes.
Dark romantasy. Glass magic. Enemies bound by broken vows. Love earned in blood and fire.
Vows of Ashenmere is the first collection from the world of The Glass Vow.
Sael Thornbury writes dark romantasy where vows have teeth and love draws blood. The Ashenmere series is set in a volcanic island kingdom where law is spoken into glass, promises are binding magic, and the women sent to marry the god beneath the mountain were never willing. Expect enemies who earn every inch of the turn, magic that costs what it gives, and stories that refuse to let anyone off easy. The Ashenmere series is the first. More is coming...View all by Sael Thornbury
