Hi! My name is Alona Faley

A traitor.
An outcast.
A madman.
And Mother, who will never let them escape.

In a world where magic has vanished and darkness reigns, the Empire is locked in endless war. Mother — leader of a Brotherhood — takes on a dangerous contract to incite revolution and overthrow the Emperor. She selects three of her faithful servants for this task. But even bound by the unbreakable blood oath, they have a will of their own.
Cirris has sworn off all forms of relationships. She is determined to regain her high rank in the Brotherhood, which she lost protecting her friends Ayden and Helean when they attempted to escape Mother. Caught and punished, she is now relegated to low-level assignments, working to repay her blood oath debt.
Noah dreams of finally making Mother pay for what she’s done to them. And whiskey, which helps quiet the cursed voices in his head, that just keep getting louder. Now he must work together with Cirris, whose dedication to the Brotherhood is almost as annoying as the shiver he gets each time their eyes meet.
Ayden is out of time. Helean, the girl he loves, has been imprisoned by Mother, and the clock is ticking. As he desperately searches for a way to free her, he finds a trail of a long-lost artifact that might hold the key to breaking blood oaths. But to get it, he needs help from Noah of all people, who is unpredictable, vengeful, and…cursed by the Dark
While Ayden and Noah seek the artifact, Cirris infiltrates the Empire’s army and joins the war. Their paths converge in the capital, where a dark secret one of them has been keeping threatens the survival of all. Those who stray from their blood oaths risk severe punishments from the Mother.

For she sees all, and she always wins.