Reaching Rotbottom

A scarred spellbreaker. A cursed prince. An ancient guardian with a shrouded past.

When Freya's spellbreaker powers manifested as a child, her people inked her face with markings of warning: Soulless. Clanless. Banished. Since then she's struggled to prove that she can survive anything—prejudice, war, even three grinding years crushed beneath Imperial rule.

Jurgen was born a farmer, not a warrior. After an assassin's blade struck down his adoptive father, Jurgen reluctantly shouldered a royal...