When his younger sister is propositioned by the Tyrant King, Aster steps in to take her place. Just when he fears he must face this fate alone, the King assigns Rowan the Black to protect him—an Enforcer Knight with a tortured past. Despite his cruel reputation, Aster can't shake the feeling that Rowan is familiar to him. Haunted by memories of his lost childhood sweetheart, Jace, Aster must now navigate a veritable political chess game he wasn't at all prepared for. 

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“Flowers like the rose are needed for so many reasons,” Aster said. “The ground needs their roots, bees need their pollen, and animals need their leaves. So they do what they can to survive, by any means necessary. Does that mean a rose is evil for growing thorns?” He looked up at Rowan.

Rowan kept his eyes on the rose. He didn’t seem convinced. “A single rose has never caused as much pain as I have, Aster.”

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Broken Vows is created by Alex Agar, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author. 

BRoken Vows

Rowan wished he’d woken up much earlier, but his dream was far too enticing to allow it to end so quickly. 


Being home for the first time in over a decade—and welcomed back by Lady Silvercrest just as if he were her long lost son—seemed to have dredged up even more memories from his golden childhood at the Silvercrest manor. 


He wasn’t even sure he remembered when this memory happened, but he remembered the spot: a short cliff, a hidden glen on the side of the bigger of the two Sister Mountains, with the lakes beside Aster’s home glimmering gently a mile or two below them. On a clear summer’s eve, long after the sun had gone to bed, Rowan found himself laying under a sky of falling stars. He watched a couple streak across the sky, but the true beauty laid at his side. 


Chapter 20: Gone