Shards of Shadow and Light

My name is Elenār Holin, and I’d like to be a widow. Under the terms of the marriage contract, after giving birth to a son conceived during the ritual, I was free to leave. My husband, a dark mage, refused to let me go, and I escaped. To hide, I need to break the blood contract and reach the old house of my parents—about which almost no one knows.

My guide is a cursed necromancer, and ahead lies a borderland devastated by black plague, teeming with marauders and the undead. Now I’m nobody—I have almost no rights over myself. But I do have the right to choose who to trust and who to love. And I will choose.