A YA Dystopian Romance
The Crimson
Vow
A Duology
Love is a death sentence. They chose it anyway.
The World of Eldros
Thirty years ago, love tore their world apart. Now emotions are outlawed, marriages are contracts, and children belong to whoever pays the highest price.
In a society built on control, two teenagers discover something forbidden — and fight for the right to feel.
Book One · Summer 2026
To Love or To Die
Some chains are made of iron. The hardest ones are made of fear.
Sixteen-year-old Elise has always known the rules: marry who you're told, produce an heir, feel nothing. When she's paired with Oliver Renoux, she expects nothing but cold duty.
What she doesn't expect is the boy with haunted eyes who flinches at his father's voice — or the way her heart races when he's near.
When their forbidden feelings are discovered, Elise and Oliver must flee everything they've known. Their only hope lies in New Haven — a hidden city where love still exists.
If they can survive long enough to find it.
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Book Two
To Live or To Fight
They survived love. Now they must survive war.
Elise and Oliver found freedom in New Haven. But the world they escaped isn't done with them. With enemies closing in and a new life to protect, they'll learn that breaking free was only the beginning.
The second and final book in The Crimson Vow Duology.
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The Characters
Elise
The Bride
Blonde hair, blue eyes, and a mask of obedience hiding a girl who still believes in the forbidden stories she reads in secret. Raised by a mother who treats love as weakness and daughters as political currency. Elise has spent her life being shaped into something she's not — but beneath the silence, a fire refuses to die.
Oliver
The Groom
Hazel eyes, light brown hair, and a body mapped with scars from his father's cruelty. Oliver learned to feel nothing, want nothing, need no one. He carries the weight of a sister he couldn't save and a childhood that was stolen. But when he meets Elise, something cracks in the armor he built to survive.
Lady Marisol
The Mother
Elise's mother wears her pride like armor and her smile like a weapon. A woman who once knew warmth but chose power instead. She controls everything — her daughter's future, her alliances, her enemies. In Eldros, love is a crime. Lady Marisol is the one who enforces the sentence.
From the Pages
"She was beautiful and real. But more than that, she held herself with such dignity that it made me feel unworthy of her."
— Oliver
"My mother never left bruises I could show, but her cruelty cut just as deep. The locked doors. Withheld meals. Words sharp enough to draw blood."
— Elise
"We'll face it together. Like we always have."
— Oliver
"The story isn't over until I say it is."
— Lady Marisol
About the Author
Isa Rose is a young writer whose debut novel draws from a deep love of dystopian fiction and stories about the resilience of the human heart. To Love or To Die is the first book in The Crimson Vow Duology.
When she's not writing, she's reading, dreaming up new worlds, and plotting the next chapter.
Content Notice
This series contains depictions of abuse, self-harm, sexual assault, violence, and death. Reader discretion is advised.
Published by
Broken Chain Press