Author's Note
I didn’t want to write a soft revenge story. I wanted to write the kind that grabs your throat in chapter one and doesn’t let go until the last page burns out.
Vow of Ash started with a question that wouldn’t leave me alone: what happens when the person you marry to destroy turns out to be the only one standing between you and something far worse? Every character in this book is lying to someone — sometimes to protect them, sometimes to survive, sometimes because the truth is the most dangerous weapon in the house. I wanted readers to feel that instability in their gut, to never be fully sure who’s playing whom, until the ground gives out completely at the midpoint.
This is not a slow, comfortable romance. It’s claustrophobic on purpose. Mira and Arjun are both predators and prey at different moments, and I refused to let either of them be simple. Veer terrified me to write — and that’s exactly how he should feel to read.
If you love stories that start deceptively calm and end in absolute wreckage — vows broken, names burned, loyalty tested past breaking — this one’s for you. Buckle in. It only gets darker from here.
