Bound

by Emily B. Smith

While seventeen-year-old Riley sits and broods in her favorite tree, a pastime she's become quite good at over the last few months, an unusual glass hatch glints on the forest floor. It's not long before this dancing light strikes Riley's eye, and she's crawling along the ground toward it. Beneath the glass, a young man floats, eerily frozen in time. Moved to action by an unseen power, Riley opens the hatch and pulls the young man out, unwittingly waking him in the process. When the bloodbinder, Cray, says, “Wish in me for I am bound by blood to grant you three,” their lives and fates become inextricably entwined.

329 pages, Paperback

Published July 29, 2023