Tidebound Gate: A Forbidden Romance of Drowned Oaths, Crystal Treason, and Sea-God Hunger. (The Tidebound Covenant #6)

Rowan Ashborne


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Tidebound Gate

The capital is starving on lies, and beneath its crystal foundations the sea is beginning to remember.

Aelira Vey has survived exile, prophecy, and the waking attention of an ancient power that now marks her body as its own. Cassian Vale has been condemned by the Parliament that shaped him, his name turned into a mechanism key in a sequence older than law itself. When hidden route-lines reveal a drowned gate beneath the capital, the two are forced back into dangerous proximity to stop an opening that could feed the gods, shatter the rebellion, and turn their bond into the catastrophe their enemies always claimed it would be.

But the closer Aelira and Cassian come to the truth, the less separable love becomes from sacrifice. Every use of Tidecraft costs memory, breath, or blood. Every act of Crystal Law tears deeper through Cassian’s voice, nerves, and fractured inheritance. As riots spread, alliances splinter, and sacred factions begin to argue that Aelira must become a vessel rather than a woman, the pair must decide what they are willing to vow to one another when the world is listening for weakness. Because if the gate opens, the capital may drown. And if they close it, the sea may demand something far more intimate in return.

For readers who love slow-burn romantasy, enemies-to-lovers tension, political betrayal, dangerous magic with visible cost, and a romance that aches harder the more impossible it becomes.
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