We’re celebrating the June 6th release of Godbound this week. This is the first book in a new series by Masha Sova!
Godbound (The Skyburn War Book 1)
Release Date: June 6, 2026
Genre: Dark Epic Romantasy
- Curses
- Trials
- Every champion gets a dragon, except her
- Reluctant allies-to-lovers
- Slowest of burns
- Love triangle
- Ballroom scene
- One horse & one bed
- Who did this to you?
- Unique Magic System
- He nurses her back to health
- She’ll hate me for this, but at least she’ll be safe
The Scarlet Letter meets the divine, deadly trials of The Games Gods Play in this dark, epic romantic fantasy where society weaponizes shame, gods weaponize survival, and love becomes the most dangerous rebellion of all.
They branded her a sinner.
She chose to become a threat.
In a kingdom where a forgotten goddess’s curse has become law—where purity is power and desire is a death sentence—Raylane has lived her life playing the perfect girl. Obedient. Untouched. Destined for the crown.
All so she might one day reshape a realm that damns cursed women like her mother… women who dared to fall in love.
Until one kiss ruins everything.
Branded impure and cursed with rot-magic that spreads by touch, Raylane is cast into the Trial of the Bound—a brutal arena where champions fight to the death, gods revel in blood, and power feeds on the prayers of the crowd.
Her only hope of survival? Swear fealty to the very goddess who cursed her. In return, the goddess tears a shadowbeast from another world and binds him to Raylane’s side—feral, unwilling, and the only one who can help her tame the power threatening to consume her.
He doesn’t want her. Doesn’t trust her. But their fates are entwined, and every step toward mastery binds them tighter.
As her power grows and their bond deepens, Raylane must make an impossible choice: win the trial, free the cursed, and unleash a forgotten goddess bent on reclaiming the world… or lose everything to save those who now pray for her death.
One path leads to love.
The other, to mercy.
Both end in ruin.
Godbound contains mature content and is recommended for readers 18+. For a full list of content warnings, please visit the author’s website.
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