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Reva Ashrow has spent her life holding together a house that is slowly coming apart. Her father is fading beneath the weight of the Marred, a wasting affliction no ward has been able to stop. Her mother works herself to exhaustion trying to keep their family fed. And Reva knows that if she stays, her whole life will narrow to patched hinges, thin stew, and grief she cannot fix. So when the Iron Call is posted, she leaves before dawn and gives her name to the Iron Oath. The Oath promises coin, purpose, and the chance to be made into something stronger. But its world is harsher than rumor. Reva is sorted into Thorn Company, where obedience is survival, weakness is noticed, and every recruit is tested before they are ever allowed to belong. Then Hadden appears beside her, carrying old feelings neither of them had the courage to name. And when one of the Oath’s iron-bound hounds marks Reva in front of the recruits, she realizes the order she has entered may already know something about her that she does not. The Iron Oath does not choose by accident. And Reva may have been claimed long before she ever answered the Call.