An indentured curse-grounder must contain a charming crown prince whose Devouring burns hollow anyone who touches him, until their forbidden Ward-Bond becomes the only proof he is freely controlled.

A death-touched immortal who keeps a moonlit inn for Seoul’s newly dead meets the one living man her touch cannot reap, only lend time to.

A disgraced healer is chosen by a leashed war-leviathan, not as his rider, but as the one woman who can cut the nine-coil Iron Brand from his heart.

Two enemy spies are married to end a war, each secretly ordered to surveil the other, while a marital glamour exposes every lie between them but never reveals the truth behind it.

A star-priestess discovers the chained eclipse god she guards is real, and every touch between them steals time from her mortal life.

A mist priestess hears a second heartbeat under her ribs and discovers the forgotten god inside her is the only thing keeping her alive.

An orphaned master-calligrapher is summoned to re-inscribe the true name of an emperor whose identity was erased by court magic.