Unbondable

The system decided Wren Ashcombe couldn't bond again. Wren decided to stop arguing with it. Three years ago, her first bond ended in a manifestation attack that took the boy she loved and left her Resonance reading at zero. Eleven trials since then have confirmed what the whole lower quarter already believes: she's cursed, unbondable, done. Then Warden Kieran Dunmore shoves her out of a Hollow's path during her twelfth failed trial, and the ledger does something it hasn't done in three years. It surges. Neither of them asked for this. The Registry calls it a probationary bond and gives them ninety days to prove it's real or let it quietly lapse. Kieran has a career built on certainty he's not ready to lose. Wren has a reputation to protect and a grief she's never let anyone see all the way through. But the more honest they are with each other, walking delivery routes and training drills and every difficult conversation neither of them wants to have, the harder the system fights to keep them together, and the more it starts to look like something else has been quietly working just as hard to tear bonds like theirs apart. Unbondable is a slow burn Romance LitRPG about second chances, found family, and a bond strong enough to survive the one thing that's been getting away with severing them for decades. Book One of the Aurevel Bonds.