The Hollowed Vow

Sera Vale has been a spy since she was fourteen. Her new assignment is simple enough on paper: marry the enemy's heir, dismantle his house, come home. Dain Rothe has been a spy since he was twelve. His new assignment is simple enough on paper too — marry the woman sent to kill his family and end hers first. Neither of them is supposed to know the other's game. Both of them do by the second week. What follows is two years of marriage in which every kindness is a coded message and every argument is a report neither will write. When the deposed regent's old intelligence network decides to kill both houses at the same feast, Sera and Dain have to choose: finish their assignments, or burn them and walk out together. The border city doesn't have a name they'll say out loud.