Verity Guild

Kerasea Vestal is High Priestess of the Republic of Pryor, and she is hiding the fact that she is the last heir of a magical bloodline the Republic destroyed. When a senator is murdered on the night of the Revelry festival and a temple blade is found at the scene, suspicion falls on her.

Praetorian Torren Morvane is sent to investigate. He blames Kera for the ruin of his family and has sworn to expose her. Both hold seats on the Verity Guild, the land's highest tribunal.

Both must also attend a conclave on Mount Ara that lasts a week, locked in with the surviving senators. Someone there begins killing members of the ruling party, and a prophecy of death hangs over the mountain.

The novel is a Roman-inspired romantasy told in alternating first-person voices, Kera's and Torren's. It combines a locked-room murder mystery with political intrigue and an enemies-to-lovers romance that builds slowly.

Treachery tightens around the conclave. To find the killer, a woman with a lethal secret and the man set on exposing her must decide whether they can trust each other.