Moralgreyhero Stories

Cosima is the one weapon that can unmake every House in the city, and she's just been betrothed to the most powerful one of them all. The only thing keeping her alive is that no one knows what she is. In Veresca, a drowning city of canals and masks, power is measured in saltfire. An outlawed magic the Great Houses smuggle, hoard, and even kill for. Cosima Vael is the last daughter of a House the city left for dead, traded into marriage to save her family from ruin. What no one knows is that Cosima carries a bloodline that was nearly hunted to extinction centuries ago. She is a null. A girl who can snuff magic with a touch, gutter saltfire like a candle, perhaps even unravel a binding oath itself. She has hidden it every day of her life. Now she belongs to Dario Vossari. A cold, ruthless heir to the most powerful House in Veresca. A man who can hear magic sing. Where everyone else rings like a struck bell, Cosima is silence, and he cannot stop listening. He came to refuse her, but didn't expect a bride who refuses to kneel. Note: This story is also going to be posted on Royal Road, Inkitt, and webnovel