Elven Bound

The elves did not conquer other worlds from strength; they ran from a hunter worse than themselves, and on their original homeworld the last cities now endure behind shields that will not hold while Predators learn, adapt, and close in.

Lord Haldeen Gatekeeper has clawed his rank from nothing, and he will not wait for rulers who refuse the truth: he reopens the forbidden World Gate that once carried elven exiles to a land they seized.

His secret experiment sends a living probe through that ancient portal and pulls back Lady Triana, a court survivor of every poisonous game of elven power who has never survived being powerless.

Collared with the device her people perfected to break others, stripped of magic and status, she is catalogued as a specimen and worked as a slave, her only ally another captive she names Rock, chained by the same brutal magic.

If Haldeen forces the Gate wide, a starving elven civilization will pour into a world already shaken by rebellion, dragons, and the magic the exiles tried to wipe out.

If Triana fails, she remains a specimen and a slave, spent while the Predators bring her captors’ world down.