Astrid Vale was raised to believe one truth: Monsters deserve to be erased. As a Valkyrie warrior, she leads executions across the Forbidden Forest, turning enemies into stone without hesitation. Until she meets Seira. A blindfolded woman sitting on a cursed throne… who knows Astrid’s name before it is spoken. And worse— Seira refuses to fight back. Every strike Astrid delivers reveals something impossible: The monsters are not attacking. They are protecting something beneath the forest. When a child statue shatters and unleashes living serpents, Astrid begins to question everything she was trained to believe. Then the truth breaks her world apart: Seira is not the enemy. She is the seal holding back a buried god. And Astrid’s own mother may be the reason the world turned to stone. Now every order from the Valkyrie council feels like a lie… And every step forward brings her closer to a truth that will destroy her identity. Because the execution she was sent to complete… Is actually the beginning of a divine cover-up.
