Soul-Bound

Two fractured souls. One shared heartbeat. Zero room for error. In a decaying world slowly being consumed by a silent, creeping void.Rin Mercer and Anya Valerius have been bound together by the Tether. A profound metaphysical fusion that stitches the spiritual cores of two people together.  If your partner feels pain, you bleed.  If your partner’s heart stops, you drop dead instantly. Rin Mercer is a cynical slum thief whose survival relies on careful spatial mapping and avoiding intimacy at all costs. He owes the world nothing, and he intends to keep it that way. Anya Valerius is a disgraced vanguard knight with a devastating kinetic redirection style and a reckless death wish. When a catastrophic altar explosion permanently binds their soul cores by accident, they are thrown into a brutal arrangement. They do not like each other. They do not trust each other. But with their shared physical reserves rapidly bleeding away, a tightening separation limit, and the High Inquisitor's iron-shod executioners tracking their exact spiritual frequency, they must force their opposing powers into absolute harmony. Because in the crawl out of Oakhaven, checking out early means dragging the other down into the mud.