The Vow She Couldn't Cut

In Ashport, every promise ever spoken leaves a visible thread binding the vower to their word—and Season Vale earns her living severing the ones that fester, freeing the desperate from oaths slowly poisoning them from within. When the Guild sends her to cut a ten-year-old thread strangling reclusive magnate Callum Ashgrove, she finds a vow that shouldn't exist: one made to a woman who, by every record, no longer exists. Now Season has three nights to decide whether to sever a love she can't quite remember making—before it kills the only man who ever kept his word.