Echoes of the Last Bond

War took everything from Jason. Thrown into a world ruled by kitsune and fractured by uneasy alliances, he should have remained just another human—forgettable, expendable, beneath notice. He doesn’t. When the Southern Princess, Ekio, chooses him, it sets off a chain of events neither of them fully understands. What begins as defiance turns into something deeper—something neither politics nor tradition can easily contain. And in a world where power defines everything…Jason is beginning to realize exactly what he’s becoming. As tensions rise and war looms closer, he is forced to carve out his own role in a world that was never meant for him—one that tests his strength, his resolve… and the fragile bond he shares with the one person who refuses to let him go. Because in a land of monsters, royalty, and war, being chosen might be the most dangerous thing of all.