Mira Thornvale

Lia was once the healer of the White Rose Clan. At seventeen, she watched her people slaughtered by the Bloodclaw Legion. She survived only because she treated an injured enemy soldier—an act that branded her a traitor. To protect that boy, she willingly endured three years of imprisonment in the Bloodclaw camp, never uttering a word.

She believed he had long forgotten her. Yet she never knew that boy was now the Bloodclaw's ruthless warlord—Karl Thorne, codenamed "The Bone General," who swore an oath to "sever all ties to the past with his own hands."


The Wolfbone Promise

Snow fell as the rebels entered the imperial capital.


Only the sound of bootsteps over marble once polished to reflect crowns.


At the heart of the palace, Karl stood before the throne.


The Emperor—his father—waited, wrapped in a cloak of gold thread and old arrogance.


“You came armed,” the Emperor said calmly.


Karl dropped his blade. It clattered like a final bell.


“I’m not here to kill you,” he said. “I’m here to end you.”


A long silence. Then the Emperor offered a smile. “Exile. I’ll grant it. You’ve earned that much.”


Karl’s voice sharpened. “You’re under arrest.”


Gasps rippled from guards, nobles, scribes. The Emperor’s smirk cracked.


Karl stepped forward, slow and steady. “You used me as a weapon. You made me forget who I was. But I remember now.”


He raised a document, stamped with the seal of the transitional council.


Chapter 14 – The Forgotten Letter