Sacred Oath

CESARE

I watched the man I love go under the ice, and I couldn't hold on.

Now I sit at my brother's right hand in Venice, wearing a dead man's ring and promised to a banker's daughter I'll never love. I smile for the families. I say what I'm told.

Everyone who loves me pays for it. So I let them bury him, and I let them dress me for a wedding.

Then a message finds me, in the one place nobody else would think to look.

He's alive. And the men who put him in that water are eating at my family's table.

ZAKHAR

The world thinks I'm dead. Let it.

My uncle sits in my chair. My men drink to his health. And the boy I'd burn the world down for is on his brother's arm, about to marry a stranger in front of every family on the border.

I have until the longest night of the year to prove who took everything from me, and to take him back before he says his vows to anyone else.

I don't kneel. Not to the old men. Not to God.

For him, I'd kneel on the ice.

This is the third book in The Winter Oath Series. Reading order:

Secret Oath.

Broken Oath.

Sacred Oath.

327 pages. Kindle edition.