🖤𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 ➜ The Bone Altar Bride (The Blood Oath Cycle) A Gothic Romantasy Prequel Novella by E. C. Gregory

 

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The Bone Altar Bride by E. C. Gregory is available now! The Blood Oath Cycle

𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒆. 𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.

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What to expect:

sacrificial bride / Blood Moon bride

healer heroine

chained, cursed king / false monster hero

false god / corrupt priesthood

dangerous devotion

names are power / true names

gothic fortress / sentient setting

Every thirteen years, beneath a blood moon, a bride is chosen to appease Alderfen’s curse. Liora Hale is the lamb the temple has chosen to lead to slaughter.

After her mother secretly bargains to spare Liora’s sister from the Choosing, Liora is left to bear the consequences. She is taken from the village and delivered to the fortress of a masked ruler known as the Unnamed King. The temple calls him Kael—a name used in place of the true one stolen from him.

Within his fortress walls, Liora learns the stories of a cruel, bloodthirsty king are another of the temple’s lies. Kael is not the curse’s master, but its prisoner—bound in iron and condemned to bleed for an Oath he never forged. He is haunted by the Remnants of the brides who came before her, and for one hundred years, he has searched for a way to break the curse that ensnares them all.

But Liora is not like the others. As the curse awakens and the fortress begins to hunger, she resists what consumed every bride before her. Where Alderfen sees a monster, Liora sees a man: wounded, imprisoned, and surviving despite everything stolen from him. And Kael begins to see her as more than the blood-price meant to keep her village alive. She is a healer. A defiant heart. And the woman who makes him want to live.

If Liora can survive until dawn, she may become the first bride to escape the curse. But surviving is no longer enough. Drawn to the king she was taught to fear, she must decide whether she is willing to risk everything and stand beside Kael against the god who claims them both.

This is novella-length, which didn't give me a whole lot of time to get attached to the characters.

What it did do, though, is set the stage for the series:

Fast-paced read

Insta-attraction between main characters - high tension but not physical

Plot introduction - lots of little things that give big hints

The old gods, their demands

Kael - who might possibly have set everything in motion

The corruption - the elders

Back history of the sacrifices and what really happens to them

We don't get all the facts, but we do get enough to whet our appetites.

I am looking forward to the series.

This has so much potential!

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