BENEATH HIS SILENCE DARK OBSESSIVE ROMANCE | MODERN CITY | TRAGIC LOVE Damien Vale was once human enough to care, but that part of him drowned years ago beneath the weight of betrayal and loss. Now, at twenty-nine, he lives inside a world built of glass and silence - a man revered for his brilliance and feared for his coldness. To most, he's untouchable. But inside him festers something darker - a quiet madness, disciplined and waiting, caged behind the calm of his eyes. Elara Dune never meant to step into his world. At nineteen, sent from Saint Veridien's Boarding Academy to live in Elysium City, she only wanted a place to finish her studies and find peace. Instead, she finds him - the man her late father once trusted, the man who hides storms behind his stillness. He watches her with the restraint of a man fighting his own ruin. She sees in him something broken that calls to her mercy - and that is her first mistake. Because Damien doesn't fall in love. He claims, consumes, and reshapes everything that touches him. And when Elara becomes the one to stir what he's buried, his silence turns dangerous. His obsession becomes devotion. And his love - a slow, beautiful kind of destruction. She is the only one who can touch his darkness. But once his mind decides she's his sanity, no one can save her from the man beneath his silence.