The Divine Bargain

Long before the Olympians carved their names into history-before heroes, hymns, and myths rose like flames from embers-there were the Primordials. Time. Chaos.

Creation itself. And there were the first mortals, born into a world still deciding whether humanity was worth saving at all. Sorcha is one of those mortals.

As a doeme-a slave bred for obedience-her body is owned, her mind conditioned, her soul treated as currency by men who wear godhood like a crown and believe dominion is their birthright. She survives by clinging to a single truth: Chaos, god of the void, is the only force that promises an end to suffering. But even Chaos answers to Time.

Chronos, the primordial god who governs the beginning, middle, and end of all things, was never meant to bend to human longing. He watches worlds rise and collapse without interference, untouched by mercy or desire. Until he sees her.

In that moment, he breaks the first and greatest law of divinity. To save Sorcha, Chronos makes a forbidden bargain-one soul exchanged for one life-fracturing eternity itself. Time warps.

The future splinters. And Sorcha is bound to a fate she cannot outrun. When she finally comes face-to-face with the god who altered creation for her, she learns the most devastating truth of all: Her life was never truly hers.

This novel is not a retelling, but a lost myth: a dark fantasy about love blooming where it should not, power that bends when it's meant to be absolute, and a mortal woman forced to decide whether fate is something to endure¿ or something to defy.