Zhiolas, a white-haired fae gifted with allure magic and a sure hand with a sword, joins the Second Army to slip his family's expectations and live as his own man.
A summons from Alluin Xilsatra, the cold and ruthless General of the First Army, sends him into a nine-tailed fox's lair as the lure meant to draw out a soul-eating monster.
Zhiolas survives the sacrifice Alluin ordered, and the general stakes his own soul to save the mage he barely knows.
The soul-splice that keeps them alive binds two men divided by age and station, a tie neither chose and neither can afford to break.
Over two hundred years, every meeting pulls them closer and wakes a desire both may still refuse to face.
