The Last Oathbinder
Alexander Vale · Romantasy · Standalone romantasy
About this book
Elara Voss is the last oathbinder — the only one left who can bind a promise so tightly that breaking it costs a life. When she takes on a dying boy's oath to save his sister, she wakes bound to Kael Thorn, an exiled fae prince accused of a murder he did not commit, and the binding will not let them be more than a day's ride apart. Kael needs her to clear his name before the Ember Court. Elara needs him to survive long enough to free the boy whose years she now carries. Between them stands Queen Isolde, who bought the boy's life-debt and means to collect it, a poisoned cup with a three-year-old secret, and a law older than any crown: a life-debt is paid by a life freely given. From the border town of Thornwick to the Oathstone and the Trial by Oath itself, Elara and Kael must unravel who really poisoned the regent, outwit a court built on bargains, and decide what their binding is worth — when the price of breaking it is everything they have left. A sweeping enemies-to-lovers romantasy of bargains, betrayal, and a love that refuses to be unwritten. AI-generated.