Sentinel's Prayer

A simple mistake. A permanent, soul-deep mark. A Sentinel who wants her gone—and a forest that wants her dead.Lyna's life in the city ended the moment she opened the wrong door. Now, trapped in the ancient, suffocating wild of the Sunken Reach, she is hunted by creatures born of rot and shadow.Enter Thaerin: a lethal, cold-hearted Sentinel who has guarded these borders for centuries. He views Lyna as nothing more than a dangerous, glowing infection—an anomaly he's determined to purge.Forced together by a magical tether neither can escape, they are trapped in a race against a fracturing world. As the forest begins to scream and the darkness closes in, Lyna and Thaerin must overcome their mutual loathing to survive.But the brand on their palms is more than a connection—it's a countdown. In a world where magic demands a blood price, survival will cost them everything they are.Bound by a curse. Hunted by the abyss. Can they break the tether before the world breaks them?