Vale learned long ago that saving people can become another way to destroy yourself. Before the Pale Blight, she worked child welfare in Grimshore, walking into homes everyone else was afraid to enter. After the world fractured and the dead began walking as Wraiths, she became something harder: a survivor with a weapon, a reputation, and a habit of taking every crisis personally. Grimshore is violent, isolated, and fiercely independent, but it is hers. Then signs of a new threat lead Vale into a conspiracy involving stolen supplies, the sickness that creates Wraiths, and people willing to sacrifice an entire community for power. The investigation pulls four dangerous men closer: Lucan, Calder, Orion, and Evander. Each understands violence in a different way, and each challenges Vale's belief that love must be earned through sacrifice. Their bond grows while old enemies return, her abusive past refuses to stay buried, and the fragile boundary protecting Grimshore begins to crack. Vale can fight monsters, expose corruption, and survive impossible odds, but accepting care is a different kind of battle. When the city she has defended for years faces destruction, she must decide how much of herself she can keep giving before loyalty becomes another cage. The Wraithbound Oath of Grimshore is a polyamorous post-apocalyptic romance filled with Wraiths, conspiracy, morally gray survivors, found family, dangerous protectors, and a woman learning that walking away from a broken place does not mean abandoning the people she once fought to save.
Vale learned long ago that saving people can become another way to destroy yourself. Before the Pale Blight, she worked child welfare in Grimshore, walking into homes everyone else was afraid to enter. After the world fractured and the dead began walking as Wraiths, she became something harder: a...