Bound by blood. Torn by fate. Their love could save the world — or end it.

Sahara Blaze has bled in the sand for ten years. Trained to kill. Never told why. When her first real mission throws her into a boy from the ice kingdom — the enemy — his touch cracks open a truth her mother died to bury.

She is not who she was raised to be. Not even close.

Raelin Coldbender can't outrun his dead father's shadow. Can't stop the visions of a girl he's never met. When he finds her on a warfield, the curse between them locks into place. Together, it feeds. Apart, they die.

One stone can sever the bond. The Hearthstone — the source of all magic in Arthelia. But Sahara's sisters found it first. They need Sahara's blood to raise an empire that should have stayed dead. And the power they're pulling from her? She can feel it answering.

For fans of Sarah J. Maas, Robin Hobb, and Joe Abercrombie.