Six years ago, healer Elowen Marsh was cast out of the fae court for poisoning the King, and the prince who loved her signed her exile without a word. She has hidden ever since in a border village with the one secret the court must never learn: her daughter.
Linnet is six, counts everything, and has never been told why promises made to her seem to stick. When the Hunt comes for her mother, Linnet walks out of hiding and makes the prince swear that nobody will ever hurt her mama. The promise binds. And every promise sworn to the child is quietly costing her her life.
We wrote this serial before the public line of the Lab started on 2026-10-17. Thus it has no writer version. Each story that we write after that date shows its writer version.