Synopsis
Eira Solnborn left her old life behind to forge steel and silence in the frozen mountains. But her past as a master binder catches up to her when the Templar Order arrives at her door, dragging a towering, chained captive. He is dangerous. He harbors a dark, unfathomable entity. And Eira is ordered to bind him using her own blood. As she works her blades and runes into his skin, an intimate, terrifying connection forms between them. He isn't fighting her magic—he's watching her, waiting, and drawing her into his quiet, devastating orbit. Trapped together in her isolated forge, the lines between captor and captive begin to blur. Every cut, every bead of shared blood, weaves a bond that threatens to unravel her carefully guarded heart and the very laws of the Order. In a world of iron, salt, and shadows, binding a monster might just mean freeing the passion she thought she had buried forever. Will she complete the ritual, or will she surrender to the man bound to her soul?
