The Stolen Sun and the Sword

In the Obsidian Palace, beauty is a cold cruelty and every life remains unwritten. She was a ghost documenting their immortality—until the Prince of Ashes decided she was the only part of history worth saving.Clara is a Blood-Scribe, an invisible "Gray" forced to wear a leaden mask to suppress her scent and hide her humanity from the vampire aristocracy. For years, she has moved through the shadows, documenting the genealogies and conquests of the noble families while her own story remained blank. But during the Blood Moon ceremony, Prince Julian—a predator whose skin is translucent with the coming of the Ash-Curse—rips away her mask and ignites an Eternal Bond that snaps the world from grayscale into agonizing, vivid clarity.Julian is dying, literally dissolving into ash because his body has reached the threshold of immortality without its fated mate. Clara’s blood is his only hope; as a scribe, her veins carry the psychic imprints and genetic memories of his entire lineage, providing the biological blueprint his cells need to survive. As the High Council demands a Memory-Trial to lay bare her secrets, Clara must choose between the brother she thought was executed—now a hidden leader in the human resistance—and the prince who is willing to burn his own legacy to protect what is his.From the Vaults of the Erased to the Spire of Records, they must outrun the Oblivion Protocol, a devastating spell designed to unwrite their existence and scatter their souls across time. To save the city, they must transform ash into ink and write a new history into the very stone of the palace, proving that a love story written in absolute choice is the most dangerous narrative a court can ever face.In a world where the stars finally feel warm, Clara is no longer a footnote. She is the girl who refused to disappear.