Bound by the Black Flame's Kiss

Saige Grayson keeps other people’s treasures whole while chronic pain and crushing debt threaten to undo her, and she still believes stories can heal.

She is the capital’s most promising bookbinder until the man she owes decides her rare talent is worth more than her payments and trades her to the Azkari.

Those immortals, forged by the gods for war, imprison her in an ancient stronghold beside Archer, a fallen general who is cursed, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.

He offers a way out only if she helps him retrieve and restore an ancient book of living magic, powerful enough to stop a great evil or unleash it.

As their work stirs something dark in the realm and in Saige, closing enemies and buried memories force them to weigh freedom, fragile trust, and the spark that could ignite the world.