The Weight of Silence

She didn't come back to forgive them.

Lady Elira Vayen was erased from the empire's record nine years ago - her name struck, her father's legacy buried, her silence mistaken for defeat. Now she has been summoned back to the court that destroyed everything she loved, to serve the sovereign she never stopped wanting and never learned to stop blaming.

Draven has rebuilt Ilyr from the wreckage of grief and war. He is unreadable. Unyielding. The most powerful man in the empire. He spent nine years engineering her return. She just doesn't know it yet.

Between them lives the ghost of a fourteen-year-old boy, a conspiracy that never finished what it started, and nine years of silence that is finally, dangerously close to breaking.

The Weight of Silence is a slow burn gothic romantasy series for mature readers. Political intrigue. Enemies to lovers. A love that survived everything except honesty. Some silences are kept for protection.

Some are kept for survival.

And some are kept because the truth, once spoken, cannot be taken back.