{"product_id":"the-sheltering-vow","title":"The Sheltering Vow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt protects a household. Not a child.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMae Davaran has never broken a law in her life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe’s twenty-eight, mageless, and a matron at a Karsthold children’s-house. Four weeks ago, her sister died on a staircase in her husband’s manor. The Iron Court magistrate ruled it a fall. The city patrol heard Mae out and wrote down\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ehysteric\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo Mae does the only thing left to her. She takes her sister’s children and runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalenna is seven. Anders is five and hasn’t spoken a word since the morning his mother died. Mae has two days of food, her father’s knife, and no magic to protect them. But anyone who wants those children will have to go through her first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarien Vossarin is a Verdant Recon-Knight. A forge-lord has paid the Order twice the going rate to bring his children home, and Darien has never failed an assignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes him three days to find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes considerably less than that to realize Mae isn’t the danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd he isn’t giving the children back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut defying his orders won’t be enough to keep them safe. In all of Velmarra, only one instrument outranks a father’s blood claim: a Sheltering Vow, fae law older than the three Courts and beyond the reach of any of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t protect children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt protects a household.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hearth. A family. \u003cstrong\u003eTwo adults standing over it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor a year and a day, Darien and Mae would belong to that household together. After that, the vow becomes permanent, or it ends.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere’s only one problem.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe won’t offer it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- notionvc: 73b4c573-597a-4c5a-aed4-79e3f9bd5078 --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maeve Hart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68146740035812,"sku":"TSVEB","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/7019\/9780\/files\/TheShelteringVow.jpg?v=1793905292","url":"https:\/\/pjfialashop.com\/products\/the-sheltering-vow","provider":"PJ Fiala","version":"1.0","type":"link"}