DutyBound, A Court of Outcasts

Sometimes love isn't enough.

Lysara Ashwyn never expected to find her soul bond at a friend's wedding.

One look at Lord Daevyn Vale—the heir to one of the Winter Court's oldest Houses—and her future changes forever.

Their courtship is swift. Their chemistry undeniable. Within weeks she's wearing the ancient Vale emerald and planning a wedding inside the halls of House Vale.

It should have been everything she'd ever dreamed of.

Until another woman refuses to let him go.

Aurora's voice follows Daevyn wherever he goes, haunting every celebration, every quiet moment, every promise. He swears the past is over. Yet duty keeps pulling him in one direction... while his heart seems trapped in another.

As wedding plans gather pace and House Vale prepares for its next Lady, Lysara finds herself caught between the certainty of the soul bond she feels... and the growing fear that she may be marrying a man who belongs to someone else.

Because some promises are made from love. Others are made from duty.

And sometimes, the two are impossible to tell apart.

A lush fantasy romance of impossible choices, ancient Houses, soul bonds, and the devastating price of doing the right thing.