Ash and Oath

They were raised to kill each other. The god under the city would rather they walk together. Cass and Torin are the only two survivors of the Ashen Mages' sacrifice — two infants bound to a god none of them could control. Both were raised to believe the other is a monster. Both have spent their adult lives ready to die, if it came to that. When the binding starts to crack, the wilder-god reaches up through the country and gives them a choice: walk the same road for a year and a day, or watch the continent burn. They walk. They bury children. They sleep in the same inn with one room. They argue about everything they were taught. By the time the road turns toward the capital, neither of them knows how to go back to the version of themselves that wanted the other dead. But the binding requires both of them. Not one. Both. A dark enemies to lovers fantasy romance for readers who like their slow burn weighed in salt flats and sacraments.