The Oracle's Bones: One year to live. A lifetime of secrets to burn. (The Devoured Year #1)
L. Ford
I was never supposed to be chosen.
Orphaned. Powerless. Forgotten by the gods and ignored by the towers that rule this world through ritual and blood.
Until the Oracle’s Bones called for me.
Now I’m the Vessel—an unwilling heir to ancient, divine magic that will kill me within the year. The prophecy is I will contain power meant to destroy cities, consume kings, and burn through centuries of silence. And when my time ends, I will die so the world doesn’t have to.
But I’m not interested in martyrdom. And I sure as hell won’t die quietly.
Veyruhn Academy is a maze of secrets wrapped in velvet and vice. The Towers are divided by discipline, but unified by politics, cruelty, and magic that hungers. My name is a curse on everyone’s tongue. Especially his.
Corwin Thorne is the Academy’s dark prince—descended from deathseers, lethal with a blade, and more dangerous with his silences. He hates me. I think I hate him too. Until he touches me like he wants to ruin me and tells me to break every rule the Towers have written in blood.
The longer I survive, the more I unravel what they’ve the Vessels who came before me, the war that never ended, and the prophecy that might not be what it seems.
Because I’m not just the end of the story.
I might be the one who rewrites it.
This does end on a cliffhanger.Perfect for readers who
Morally gray characters & forbidden attraction
A magical academy with deadly secrets
Intense, lyrical prose with emotional depth
High-stakes prophecy, ancient relics, and slow-building obsession
A heroine who refuses to die for a system built to kill her
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