Given: An Epic Romantasy: The Giving Chronicles, Book 1

Everything Wren has ever believed about the gods is a lie—and now she's running for her life to prove it.

Born Marked, Wren has spent nineteen years preparing to be Given: a willing sacrifice offered to the divine powers that supposedly protect her kingdom. She embraces her purpose, her faith unshakable—until a Giving Ceremony shatters everything. Watching her best friend butchered in the name of gods she once trusted, Wren doesn't pray. She runs.

Survival in the wilderness is already brutal when she stumbles upon an unconscious stranger bleeding out in the undergrowth. Compassion overrules caution, and she saves him—only to discover she's healed the one man tasked with hunting her down. He is a Hunter, bound by sacred law to return Marked Ones to the gods, and Wren is his primary target.

The debt of his life changes everything.

In this darkly atmospheric romantasy laced with horror and mystery, two enemies are bound together by obligation, distrust, and something dangerously close to longing. He grants her one day's head start—a single mercy that ignites a lethal, complicated chase across a world far darker than Wren ever imagined. The Hunter is ruthless. The law is absolute. And the gods, she is beginning to understand, are neither benevolent nor merciful.

But the most dangerous revelation of all? The man sent to destroy her might be the only one willing to help her survive.