The Terms of Our Ruin by Jennie Wren Foster — Kindle Ebook
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Release date: December 25, 2026
She agreed to a marriage. She never agreed to make her people expendable.
Envoy Johanna Rusk knows what a careless promise can cost. Three winters of military requisitions have left her district hungry, and her own name stands beside decisions she cannot undo. Now grain waits beyond a closed river crossing, and a political marriage offers a way to unlock the records that control it.
Her new husband is Commander Ansel Redfern, the man whose orders sent those wagons into her villages. He agrees to separate rooms, independent authority, and her right to refuse the permanent oath. Respect is a beginning. Trust will take more than signatures.
Then Johanna reads the missing treaty annex. The proposed ward will protect the capital by sending the reservoir’s floodwater through the inhabited lowlands. Her home is among them.
With the old authority about to expire, Johanna and Ansel must find another way to move grain, control the river, and persuade both sides to bear the cost. In a world where promises engraved in copper govern the water, every omission matters. So does every boundary between them.
As reluctant cooperation becomes love, Johanna faces a question no marriage contract can settle: can she build a life with a man whose power she must still be free to challenge?
The Terms of Our Ruin is a political fantasy romance novella featuring a marriage of convenience, mature protagonists, precise oath magic, and a love tested by the cost of keeping one’s word. Non-explicit romance with a hopeful, satisfying ending.
Author: Jennie Wren Foster