Book One:
Echo has spent her whole life surviving men who wanted to break her, so when she's dragged into the heart of a dying civilization by creatures who shouldn't exist, she does what she's always done — she fights, she bleeds, and she refuses to kneel.
But this place has teeth she wasn't ready for: a warlord who watches her from the dark like she's already his, and a man who found her in a pitch-black cell and swore they'd walk out alive.
Caught between a love she's choosing and a fate she's chained to, Echo discovers something burning quietly inside her chest, something older than the bond, older than the creatures who worship it, something that every woman before her has died carrying —
and she is going to have to decide whether to let it consume her or learn to make it hers, because in this world, the fire doesn't care if you're ready, and neither do the gods.
