The Butterfly King: Ashes of the Oath - The Butterfly Throne Saga, #2

When mercy becomes a weapon, love must learn to survive in the fire it created.

In the kingdom of Aurelion, law is written not only on stone but on skin, and mercy is a currency minted in blood. The war that began with a prophecy now ends in smoke, and from the ashes of the first oath rises a story of devotion sharp enough to cut gods.

Once, Kael Aurelion was a blind prince destined to die before his twentieth year. Now he returns from the battlefield reborn by forbidden nectar—the thousand-year sweetness that can heal or destroy. The light in his chest no longer belongs to heaven, and every breath he takes hums with the echo of the man who gave it back to him.

That man is Lyr of Silvaris, the singer of the forest, heir to the butterfly hives and the outlawed power of resurrection. When he spills his own nectar to bring Kael back from death, he breaks the oldest law of their world—and binds their souls with something fiercer than prophecy. But resurrection comes with a price: Kael's pulse burns with nectar's fire, and every creature, saint, and shadow now hungers for his heart.

Together they return to a capital built on deceit:
a throne room ruled by whispers, a council that worships rumor while kitchens starve, and a queen who measures love in secrets. Kael must pretend indifference to protect Lyr from the Church that calls him heretic. Lyr must prove his innocence before the same empire that would rather cage him than understand him. Between them stands a power older than kings and more fragile than faith—the vow they made on a dying field.

But vows written in blood cannot survive the light.
To save Aurelion from the shadow it birthed, Kael and Lyr must choose whether to keep loving through ruin or let the world burn clean of them both. Their battle will unmake the old order and rewrite the meaning of mercy itself.

From smoke-choked battlefields to glittering palaces of deceit, Ashes of the Oath weaves a tale of resurrection, politics, and slow-burning forbidden love. Each page balances a blade and a breath: enemies turned soulbound lovers, miracles that taste like sin, and the haunting question of what remains when devotion survives death.

When the light forgets how to forgive,
remember the sweetness that remembers you.