The Silence We Inherit: 1

In Insonia, silence isn't peace. It's enforced.No one speaks. No music exists. Even the smallest sound is forbidden-and those who make one are taken.Cora Isolde has survived by keeping her head down and her hands busy at the forge. Control is everything. Until the metal beneath her hands starts to move in ways it shouldn't.Then the King's Watch comes for her...Knox Veyr-known as the Bloody Raven-has spent centuries hunting down threats to the crown. He knows the rules of this world better than anyone.Cora doesn't fit any of them.Dragged into a court where power is carved into skin and loyalty is forced, she becomes more than a curiosity-she becomes a liability. And Knox is the one ordered to keep her under control.But the closer he watches her, the clearer it becomes: Cora isn't just dangerous to the kingdom's silence. She's dangerous to everything built on it. And if what's growing between them isn't stopped... it could be the thing that finally breaks it.