Gold on The Tongue, Blood Hands: Curse That Chose Us Both

Gold on the Tongue, Blood on the HandsEvery wound Liora heals leaves its mark on her own skin. In the Walled City, magic isn't a gift-it's a debt. Liora is a healer whose body absorbs the injuries of everyone she touches, her flesh slowly turning to glass with every life she saves. She has spent years paying that price quietly, one silver scar at a time, for strangers who will never know her name. Then there's Elias. The one person she was never supposed to touch. He carries a corruption the High Curator's regime calls a weapon and Liora calls a countdown: a sickness with no edge, no end, and no cure. Loving him should be impossible. Healing him should be fatal. And when the High Curator's Hall finally comes to collect what it believes belongs to it, Liora is forced to choose between the life she's always sacrificed for and the one person she was never meant to save. Dark and atmospheric, Gold on the Tongue, Blood on the Hands is a slow-burn forbidden romance set against a dystopian fantasy world where magic is harvested, suffering has a price, and the line between healer and weapon is beginning to disappear. How far would you let someone in if loving them meant losing yourself?