Gelden

Born under an omen of serpents, ‌Lila Voss‌ is bound by ritual to ‌Ethaniel Drakos‌, a vengeful serpent lord, to save her cursed village of ‌Ravenhollow‌. As plague-like serpent swarms and spectral horrors ravage the land, Lila uncovers her ancestors’ betrayal of Ethaniel’s serpent kin—a massacre that transformed him into an immortal force of retribution.

Haunted by visions of a ghostly bridegroom and a relic called the Obsidian Fang, Lila navigates treacherous alliances with ‌Alaric Graves‌, a rogue serpent scholar, and ‌Seraphina Vale‌, a wraith tied to Ravenhollow’s buried sins. From the serpent-infested marshes of ‌Shadowfen‌ to the tomb-laden ‌Sable Peaks‌, she battles cults and ancestral spirits while grappling with her growing bond to Ethaniel—a bond teetering between salvation and annihilation.

When a ritual to resurrect an elder god demands her death, Lila must choose: sever Ethaniel’s curse and doom her people, or embrace her fate as his eternal bride, merging her soul with his serpentine power—even if it awakens a darkness neither can control.

Table of Serpent’s Requiem

Table of contents

Volume 1