A Death of touch

In the Kingdom of Vaelthorn, feeling is forbidden.
Not metaphorically. Not poetically. By law, by conditioning, by eleven years of a king who decided that emotion was the specific architecture of disaster and built an entire civilization around its absence.
Into this kingdom walks Amiana Morvaine - nineteen years old, silver-eyed, and carrying a gift that has spent her entire life being called a curse. Everything she touches dies. Everyone who gets close enough to feel her warmth is drained of it. She has spent nineteen years learning three rules.
Don't touch. Don't feel. Don't love.
Ashael Thorne has spent eleven years learning the same rules from the other direction.
The Kingdom of Silence series is the story of what happens when two people who have made their entire lives out of distance find each other across it. It is dark and it is devastating and it is, at its core, a story about the specific courage of choosing to feel things in a world that has decided feeling is weakness.
It is enemies who were never really enemies. It is a king who walks to windows he has never walked to before. It is a girl whose curse turns out to be a gift - the land's judgment, made specific and personal and human - finding the one person in a kingdom full of carefully constructed emptiness who is genuine all the way down.
It is love with no condition attached to it.
No exit built in.
No door left standing.
The Kingdom of Silence series is a dark fantasy romance intended for adult readers.