Blood Is Not a Vow: A Vireth Romantasy, Where Love Defies Lineage and Legacy

di Lucian Reef (Autore)

Lucian Reef, 2025

In Vireth, blood is proof, names are currency, and love is never considered private. Alexander Blackwood has been raised to understand distance before desire, legacy before self, and obedience before truth. As the acknowledged heir of one of Vireth's most powerful houses, his body carries meaning long before he speaks, and every movement is watched for what it might imply. Ethan Hale knows this world differently. He has learned how to survive inside it without belonging to it, how to stand close without being claimed, how to remain correct even when correctness costs something unnamed. Their closeness begins as proximity, measured and permitted, the kind that can still be explained away. But in a society where lineage defines worth and silence is mistaken for consent, even restraint becomes dangerous. What is observed is judged. What is judged is recorded. And what is recorded can never be undone. When the systems that have shaped their lives begin to tighten, Alexander and Ethan are forced to confront what remains when protection is withdrawn, when titles fail to hold, and when blood refuses to answer for truth. The cost of being seen grows heavier, and the cost of choosing each other grows sharper, not through grand declarations, but through quiet decisions made in rooms without witnesses. This is not a story of rebellion through spectacle, nor of love that saves by force. It is a story of distance, of silence, of the weight carried by those who are expected to represent more than themselves. It is about what happens when a world built on inheritance begins to crack under the pressure of choice, and when two people must decide whether love can exist without permission, without magic, and without legacy to protect it. Blood Is Not a Vow is a standalone romantasy that explores queer love within rigid power structures, the quiet violence of respectability, and the slow, deliberate act of choosing one another when nothing else remains certain. It is a restrained, emotionally driven narrative where intimacy is dangerous, freedom is unfamiliar, and the most radical act is not defiance, but staying.

• Autore: Lucian Reef
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Lucian Reef
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233221644