Vows of Velvet & Venom

She kisses a dying god to buy her freedom—and wakes the prince who once burned the world.

In the ash-choked city of Ashveil, smuggler Liora Vey survives on secrets and stolen breath. One forbidden job takes her beneath the ruined Sanctum of Ember, where a coal-dark god lies with a single breath left—and an offer no desperate girl should accept. The moment Liora seals the bargain with a kiss, living ink brands her skin…and the “dead” heir of the Veil rises from the dust, fire and shadow wrapped in human shape.

Azar doesn’t just want his stolen breath back. He needs Liora—because the Veil that keeps forgotten gods out is thinning, and the mark on her collarbone is the key that can mend it…or split it wide. Hunted by masked Veilbound, haunted by visions that aren’t hers, and trapped in a bond that tightens with every heartbeat, Liora has one chance: uncover what really happened when Ashveil first burned, before a Severed Flame turns the city’s wounds into a doorway.

But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous Azar becomes to lose—and the more a cold-fire god in the shadows seems to remember her name.

A dark romantasy of smoke, prophecy, and soul-deep fire—where one kiss can save Ashveil…or turn its streets into a pyre.