Godsbane

She was born to destroy him. He was sent to destroy her first.

When mortal warrior Sera discovers she carries the ancient curse known as the Godsbane—a power that can unravel a deity's immortality with a single touch—every god in the pantheon wants her dead. Every god except the one assigned to execute her. Kael, ruthless enforcer of the divine order, has never once questioned a kill order. Until now.

Their arrangement is simple: he keeps her alive long enough to understand the curse. She tolerates his infuriating arrogance long enough to survive. But hatred has a way of curdling into something far more dangerous when two people are forced to share cramped campfires, old wounds, and the truth they've both been running from.

Kael is everything Sera despises—cold, immortal, and loyal to the very gods who destroyed her family. Sera is everything Kael was ordered to fear—unpredictable, magnetic, and somehow capable of making him forget that gods aren't supposed to feel anything at all.

The closer they get to breaking the curse, the more they realize breaking it means breaking *this*—whatever unnamed, impossible thing has grown between an executioner and his mark.

Some powers were never meant to be controlled. Some feelings were never meant to survive.

*But gods, they try.*