Bloodmoon Covenant

Length: 6,039 words (A Dark Novella) Once every century, the gods renew their deal. This time, they didn't answer. The kingdom of Aethel is rotting. Crops fail, beasts awaken, and the sacred Covenant of Thorns—a vital pact between mortals and the Underworld gods—has catastrophically failed under the shadow of the Bloodmoon eclipse. The priests cry out for blood sacrifice, blaming the impure. But Seren Valen, a hunted blood mage whose veins carry the forbidden mark of both god and mortal, knows the truth is far more dangerous than simple impiety. She is the last descendant of the lineage that founded the Covenant, a living connection to an original, devastating lie. To save her home, she must delve into the ossified cathedrals beneath the city, risking her life to uncover an ancient betrayal—a sin woven into the very fabric of her bloodline. Her quest is complicated by Lycander, the King's Shield, a man sworn to hunt her down, yet bound to her by a fierce, forbidden love. When duty and desire clash in the darkness, Seren must choose: surrender to a sacrificial death to appease blind faith, or spill her own sacred blood to bind herself to the very god who destroyed her family... and perhaps, shatter her soul forever. Bloodmoon Covenant is a haunting, intimate dark fantasy novella of inherited guilt, divine cruelty, and the tragic price of saving a broken world through absolute surrender.