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Beautiful Vows of Ruin: A Dark Syndicate Arranged Marriage Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
To keep the city warm, they must burn the dead. But the dead are screaming.
In the subterranean, ice-locked city of Khord, survival is a matter of brutal acoustics. Miles beneath the frozen ocean, colossal steam-driven engines known as the Prime Forks strike the deep bedrock, generating the kinetic friction needed to keep the freezing citizens alive. But the strikes are uncovering a terrifying anomaly: Cymite, an iridescent, ancient glass that infects anyone who touches it with a telepathic, hallucinatory madness known as The Echo.
Maretze Gant is an Acoustic Cull-a disgraced state medic tasked with surgically deafening the infected to protect the city's sanity. But Maretze hides a lethal secret behind her sterilized bureaucracy: she hears the phantom ocean, too. She knows the madness isn't a disease. It is the harmonized, agonizing scream of a sentient alien graveyard being crushed alive by Khord's iron engines.
When a dying miner named Nezzen Drade proves he can manipulate the acoustic frequency of the ancient dead, Maretze's fragile reality shatters. Hunted by the ruthless Overseer Vroche-a pragmatist perfectly willing to torture a million sleeping gods to prevent Khord from freezing-Maretze and Nezzen must descend into the labyrinthine engine strata to sabotage the city's mechanical heart.
But destroying the Prime Forks requires a localized acoustic resonance that will tear the iron apart from the inside. Trapped between a brutal Enforcer strike-team and the plummeting sub-zero temperatures of a dying world, Maretze faces an impossible equation.
She can let the city burn the souls of the earth to survive another winter. Or she can shatter the machine, silence the screams, and doom humanity to the freezing dark.
Beautiful Vows of Ruin is a dark, atmospheric dystopian thriller about the lethal cost of survival, perfect for fans of grimdark sci-fi, biopunk horror, and high-stakes psychological suspense.
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