Cathedral of the Crows Duet

Mirror Heart & Gilded Blood

By: Kate Seger

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Two thousand years. Two souls. One debt the earth refuses to forgive.

Beneath the Cathedral of Saint Jude, something ancient is keeping score.

In a medieval village ruled by faith and fear, Ambrose—a priest who built his life on walls of Law and certainty—is unraveling. The woman tearing him apart is Aveline, a laundress with dirt under her nails and a heartbeat that moves in time with something buried deep below the cathedral floor. She hears the hum in the stone. He feels it in his bones. And neither of them can explain the dreams—of standing stones, of blood on frost, of a vow made long before their names existed.

When a bishop arrives with an inquisition at his heels, their forbidden bond becomes the evidence of heresy. Ambrose must choose: the institution that made him, or the woman the earth keeps pulling him toward. He chooses her. It costs them everything.

Mirror Heart is a gothic tragedy. It is not the end of the story.

Centuries later, the Wars of the Roses have turned England into a slaughterhouse—and the Root is still waiting. A wounded Yorkist soldier crawls into a cathedral and bleeds at the feet of a nun who should let him die. Isolde, a survivor of the Ashworth massacre, has spent three years turning her grief into silence. Aurelian, a deserter carrying the weight of atrocities he witnessed and did nothing to stop, has spent just as long trying to earn a death he doesn't deserve.

They've never met. They've known each other for two thousand years.

Gilded Blood is the story Mirror Heart was waiting for—the life where they finally stop choosing the wall, the duty, the pattern that keeps breaking them. But choosing each other means fleeing the only sanctuary they have, facing the commander who wants them dead, and returning to the place where everything burned.

This time, the ending is different. This time, they plant the seed.

Cathedral of the Crows is a complete gothic fantasy duology spanning two thousand years of love, loss, reincarnation, and the stubborn, rooted refusal to let the wrong ending be the last one.