_This was not supposed to happen. This couldn't be the Allfather's will. I knew what I had seen. I hadn't seen righteousness. Or religious devotion. I had seen hunger. And he was going to consume me._ This book is set in a brutal dystopian world and contains fictional horror content that might be distressing. Please read TWs and everyone in my dark stories is always over 18. 25-year-old Obedience has led a blessed life as one of the Chosen Ones. But her faith is tested on the day of the long-awaited Eclipse Ritual, when she gets bound for life to a man she never expected, a man with a dark and obsessive need to possess her. She begins to learn the truth about her idyllic community, but will her husband be her savior or her damnation?

In Bloodmoon Ritual, Ronan consolidates power, but other Congregations start testing the boundaries of his land. In a nearby Unsaved town, Temperance works as a coffee barista. Several years ago, as a teenager she was rescued from her Congregation by a social worker militia and given a new name and identity with a foster family. But there is someone who has never stopped looking for her, a zealous and inflexible holy warrior who will do anything to get her back.