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House Of Vows: Every No Leaves a Scar
Paperback
FantasyScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 14 2025
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
n a city where every life is bound by unbreakable vows, obedience isn't a choice-it's survival.
Ealasaid spent years enforcing the system, recording lives as they were quietly erased. She believed in the rules. In the order. In the lie that no one could refuse.
Until she found the one line of text the Houses buried:
Consent can be withdrawn.
Now people are choosing to break their vows-and many are dying for it.
Hunted by the Houses and haunted by the names she's already lost, Ealasaid joins a fragile underground network fighting to turn refusal into something survivable. With Cailean, who's spent his life inside the system's highest ranks, and Iomhar, a former enforcer learning how to disobey his own body, she begins to rewrite what freedom could mean.
But the truth is dangerous.
The more they learn, the clearer it becomes: breaking a vow isn't just rebellion-it's a risk no one fully understands. And when the Houses drag their work into the open, Ealasaid will have to stand in front of the very system she once served and prove that choice is worth the cost.
Even if it kills her.
Because every refusal leaves a mark.
And some marks don't fade.
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