About the series
In the Empire of Ilvanne an oath is held by a memory, and breaking it costs the swearer his heat within minutes. Aeliss Corrigan cannot be sworn at all. A slow-burn romantic fantasy in three books.
At a glance
- Genre
- Romantasy, gaslamp fantasy
- Mood
- Emotional
- Setting and era
- Invented world
- Pace
- Slow
- Point of view
- First person
- Reading order
- Read in order
- Heat
- Warm
The books in order
3 books
Book 1Start here
An Oath of Frost and Forgetting
In Ilvanne every oath is held by a memory, and breaking one costs your warmth within minutes. Aeliss Corrigan cannot be sworn at all. To win back her mother’s lost memory, one man must die, and the only man who ever treated her as more than a file needs him alive.
Book 2
An Oath of Smoke and Remembering
The founding oath of Ilvanne should lie safe behind a vault door in an old northern town. Aeliss Corrigan goes looking and finds a cheap levy ledger instead, quietly wrong for eighty years, while someone keeps burning the proof on a signed requisition.
Book 3
An Oath of Blood and Reckoning
The close of The Attestry. When the council that rules on oaths hears the evidence and chooses to do nothing, Aeliss Corrigan has one procedure left: an open door, a pair of chairs, one quiet hour, and a clause she must draft to bind herself for life.
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Book 1
An Oath of Frost and Forgetting
In Ilvanne every oath is held by a memory, and breaking one costs your warmth within minutes. Aeliss Corrigan cannot be sworn at all. To win back her mother’s lost memory, one man must die, and the only man who ever treated her as more than a file needs him alive.
Book 2
An Oath of Smoke and Remembering
The founding oath of Ilvanne should lie safe behind a vault door in an old northern town. Aeliss Corrigan goes looking and finds a cheap levy ledger instead, quietly wrong for eighty years, while someone keeps burning the proof on a signed requisition.
Book 3
An Oath of Blood and Reckoning
The close of The Attestry. When the council that rules on oaths hears the evidence and chooses to do nothing, Aeliss Corrigan has one procedure left: an open door, a pair of chairs, one quiet hour, and a clause she must draft to bind herself for life.
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Names and roles that are safe before you start.
Get the series
Book 1An Oath of Frost and Forgetting
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Book 2An Oath of Smoke and Remembering
E-book
Paperback
Book 3An Oath of Blood and Reckoning
E-book
Paperback
Questions
Do I have to read the books in order?
Yes. Each book gives away how the earlier ones end, so read them in the order they are listed.
Where do I start?
With Book 1, An Oath of Frost and Forgetting.
How many books are there?
The series has 3 books. It is complete.
About Sable Wren
Sable Wren writes romantic fantasy about bargains that bind. In the drowning canal city of Solmarre, two hated Houses of salt-magic are ordered to marry or watch the tide-wards fail and the sea take the lower quarters. One of them lost a father to the other’s testimony. Now they share a palazzo, a vow with teeth in it, and a city that will drown if they cannot work together.
