A Vow of Ash and Olive: Forced Marriage Greek Mythology Romantasy

She offered one year of her life to save her island. The god who accepted intends to make sure she survives it.The plague has reached its fourth week, and Kallista Oreathe has run out of clean pages in the temple ledger.With her dying island desperate for a miracle, Kallista invokes the Ash Rite, an ancient bargain no bride has ever survived. In exchange for the plague's end, she must become the wife of Ereus, the exiled god of oaths and ruin, for one full year.The terms are simple.She belongs to him in name and law.At the end of the year, she will be released.And under no circumstances may they touch.Ereus has witnessed every vow sworn in the mortal world and enforced every terrible price. Cold, precise, and feared even by other gods, he has taken three mortal brides before Kallista.All three died.But Kallista is not interested in becoming his fourth tragedy. Armed with a talent for contracts, a growing list of forbidden questions, and no patience for divine evasions, she begins uncovering the truth hidden inside his silent house.The plague was no accident.The brides were never sacrifices to Ereus.And the vow binding them both is only one piece of a conspiracy that began nine gods and four hundred years ago.As suspicion turns to desire, Kallista must decide whether the god she was taught to fear is her captor, her only ally, or the man willing to defy Olympus to save her.Because vows cannot be broken without cost.And this time, the gods may be the ones forced to pay.A Vow of Ash and Olive is an emotional Greek mythology romantasy featuring a forced marriage bargain, a morally gray god, enemies-to-lovers tension, forbidden touch, slow-burn heat, political intrigue, and a fierce mortal heroine who knows the most dangerous weapon in any world is the fine print.