Vow of Fire(TM)

She was never bound. She was never chosen. And the fire still answered her.In the empire of Caerith, every child is marked by one of the Seven Vows. The rite is sacred, brutal, and unquestioned.Seren has escaped it all.Raised without a House, a lineage, or a binding, she has spent eighteen years hiding the one truth that could get her killed: fire cannot hurt her.Then the Pyra Crucible chooses differently.Instead of consuming her, the flames turn toward her. Ancient seals awaken. Vows she never swore begin answering her. And a court built on four hundred years of obedience suddenly has a problem it cannot explain.Prince Kael Vareth understands danger better than most. Marked by the Vow of Pain, he has spent eleven years carrying the suffering of everyone around him. Yet Seren is the first person whose presence gives him silence.When he claims her before the court, he means to contain the threat.Instead, they begin uncovering something far worse.A missing founder.A seventh vow that was never truly bound.A buried bloodline.And an empire whose most sacred traditions were built on a refusal no one was supposed to remember.As Seren awakens vow after vow, rebellion spreads through the Houses, forgotten heirs step out of the shadows, and the question at the heart of the empire becomes impossible to silence:What happens when a vow is no longer imposed, but chosen?Vow of Fire is a dark, cinematic fantasy of forbidden power, ritual, memory, rebellion, and the dangerous intimacy between two people who were shaped by pain in entirely different ways. It is Book I of The Seven Vows & Memoryblade.