Freed by Choice

The bond saved her life. Now breaking it is the only way she can survive. Kira Venn has eighteen months to live. The data is undeniable. The supernatural bond connecting her to Caelum Morvyn is deepening faster than her human body can withstand. Every shared heartbeat, every drop of blood, and every moment of perfect synchronization pushes her closer to total cardiac collapse. Desperate to protect the vampire she loves, Kira hides the diagnosis while searching for a permanent cure. But Caelum knows her too well to miss the distance growing between them. When he discovers the truth, the freedom they fought so hard to win begins to fracture. Saving Kira will require more than another feeding or temporary fix. They must destroy the forced connection that binds their bodies together and endure an Unbound Interval in which neither will be able to feel the other. For Caelum, severance means surrendering the one certainty he has left. He must release his awareness of Kira's heartbeat, silence every possessive instinct demanding that he keep her close, and accept that once she is free, she may never choose to return. But Lucian Covax has been waiting for the bond to become vulnerable. A parasitic frequency is awakening the lethal Warden programming buried inside Caelum, turning his own body into a weapon against the woman he would die to protect. As Kira's time runs out, they must dismantle the systems controlling them before Covax completes the ritual that began with her blood. Their first bond was created without choice. Their final bond will exist only if they choose each other when the magic is gone. Freed by Choice is the final book in The Warden's Law trilogy, a dark vampire romance featuring an established couple, a terminal supernatural countdown, secret diagnosis, possessive protection, bond severance, mutual sacrifice, explicit heat, and a hard-won romantic HEA.