Bound by Ash : When Love Becomes Law Broken Oath Chronicles Book

When love becomes law, survival becomes a sentence.Ilyra Vale was never meant to be a weapon.She was meant to be a solution.Bound by forbidden magic to Cael Thorne—a Covenant Oathkeeper stripped of choice and forged into obedience—Ilyra discovers that their bond does more than share power. It feeds. It counts. And every time it saves a city, it takes something from them in return.Time. Strength. Freedom.As unrest spreads and wards collapse across the realm, the Covenant tightens its grip, transforming Ilyra from a temporary necessity into a permanent asset—and Cael into the anchor that keeps her alive. Together, they become indispensable. Irreplaceable. Owned.But the bond is changing.What began as survival becomes dependency. What was once control becomes intimacy. And what the Covenant believes is obedience may be something far more dangerous: choice.When Ilyra dares to name the truth of what binds them—not as hierarchy or command, but as love—she claims the only thing the Covenant cannot seize: the reason she fights. Yet defiance has a cost. To save the city, she must be used. To save the Covenant, she must be consumed.And to save her…Cael may have to betray the one person he was never meant to choose.Bound by Ash is the first book in a dark, emotionally charged fantasy saga about power, sacrifice, and the violence of systems that turn love into law. Perfect for readers who crave slow-burn intimacy, moral tragedy, and high-stakes bonds that do not break cleanly.This is not a story about freedom won.It’s about what freedom costs—and who is forced to pay it first.