Awakening
Blood Oath

Two squads marched north. Neither returned.

Kira Silverwind was raised on one promise. That her broken kingdom, renamed Crescentia for the crescent moon, still holds a sliver of light against the dark. She believes it less with every league.

Now she is bound to Squad 922 of the Lunarian Legion, along with six others no one had any business calling a squad. They are sent in the footsteps of the missing, deep into a frontier the kingdom has long forgotten.

Along the way these seven misfits become a family, and a caravan of desperate souls follows in their wake.

Bandits wait in the trees who would sooner die than be taken. Something in the dark wears no face. A crescent pendant warms at her throat, a warning that does not say why. In a ruined alley, the thing that should have ended her kills for her instead.

Every one of them gathers scars, and some of Kira's were never hers to start. The squad keeps secrets, from one another and from themselves. Some of those secrets will not keep.

Death has followed them, and death waits ahead.

Darkstone: Awakening Blood Oath is a story about becoming a family by accident, and discovering that accidents are sometimes older than we are. About blades of ice, shadows with memory, and the quiet terror of realizing that the name you were given may belong to something bigger than yourself.

Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Military Fantasy · Found Family · Sapphic Slow-Burn Subplot · Buried Secrets

Content advisory: Intended for mature teen and adult readers. Contains graphic violence, death (including references to the deaths of children), grief, references to sexual assault and domestic abuse, and other potentially distressing themes.