A COURT of SALT AND SILENCE: Book One The Ashborne Chronicles: 1

She was never supposed to be chosen. He has been waiting three hundred years for someone who could survive the truth. Maren Voss was twenty-one - three years too old for the Choosing - when the Veil finally took her. Marked by silver fire and dragged into the ruined Court of Ashborne, she finds a world that should have died centuries ago. Its magic is failing. Its laws are corrupted. Its people are bound to a covenant that no longer protects them. And its lord has been waiting. Cold, controlled, and impossibly dangerous, he has spent three hundred years holding a broken court together with blood, silence, and lies. Maren should fear him. She does. But fear is not the only thing growing between them. Because Maren is not a sacrifice. Not a vessel. Not another girl in white linen sent to disappear. She is the mistake the old magic never planned for. And if she wants to save Ashborne, she may have to trust the one man who could destroy her - or become the only woman capable of destroying him first. A Court of Salt and Silence is an adult dark romantasy with a slow-burn romance, a dangerous court, ancient magic, morally complex characters, and a heroine who refuses to be used.

Pagina's: 374, Paperback, Independently published