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In the empire of Bono Manso, beauty is built from grief - and emotion is treason.
Toni Bassali, a human of the enslaved Inritus class, has one purpose: to infiltrate the Hollow Queen's court as an Echo Bride and destroy the Revenant commander who murdered her parents. But the man she's meant to seduce, Kael, is haunted by the dead - and her presence silences the voices in his mind.
In the shadows, her sister Liya leads the resistance, bound by vengeance and an uneasy alliance with Kofi, a Veilborn assassin who vanishes between mirrors. Together, the sisters move through a world of gilded cruelty, where love is a curse, loyalty burns, and rebellion whispers through ash and veil alike.
When Toni's heart becomes her weapon, and Liya's faith becomes her undoing, the empire will finally remember what it means to fear the living.
A romantasy of fire, bloodlines, and forbidden devotion - inspired by African mythology and the ruinous beauty of power.