🌑 Crimson Oath

Under the blood-red moon lies the kingdom of Dareth, where shadows rule and silence carries ancient secrets. For centuries, a fragile truce has kept humans and nightborn creatures in balance — a sacred rite known as the Bloodmoon Covenant. Every hundred years, one mortal is chosen to renew the oath that binds life to death. This time, fate chooses Raven Elaris, a defiant young woman marked by the moon since birth. With raven-black hair and eyes that shimmer crimson in moonlight, she carries a power she doesn’t understand. When the sacred words of the ritual slip from her lips, she awakens something forbidden — Lord Varyn, the immortal vampire king who has slept beneath the ruins of the northern veil. His awakening binds their souls through blood and shadow. Raven begins to hear his voice inside her mind — calm, dark, and mesmerizing. Each night, she feels his hunger grow inside her chest, his emotions threading through her own. As the Bloodmoon rises higher, villages fall silent, and whispers spread that the new bearer of the oath is cursed. Varyn, both predator and protector, sees in Raven the same loneliness that once drove him to madness. Together, they must rewrite the covenant that keeps the night in check — or watch Dareth fall into eternal darkness. But love between mortal and immortal is the oldest sin under the moon. And the moon never forgets.