Crown of Ruin: Love Chosen Over Gods and Thrones

Aedon was raised to believe that obedience was holiness and pain was proof of worth.In Astra, faith is enforced with clean hands and sharper knives, and kings are not crowned so much as consumed—slowly, ritual by ritual, until nothing remains but function.Bound by a curse the world insists is inevitable, Aedon has spent his life treated as a mechanism rather than a man. The bond that ties him to a...