The Silence He Chose

The First Wrong Silence

von Madison James

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Where the Turning Claims Trust: Book FourThe Silence He ChoseThe First Wrong Silence

The garrison gates are sealed, and the woman who gave the order that branded Dain Ferro nine years ago is standing close enough to see the scar. Commander Rhosyn Dael has found him, and she has not forgotten a single detail of Ashfall. Getting out costs Dain and Maren the last of what little they still had, and puts them, for the first time, on the same storm-battered stretch of coast as a cliff-city on the verge of doing what no city in the Dominion has dared: breaking from the Choir outright.

Gravehold offers shelter, a governor willing to say aloud what everyone else only whispers, and a network of unregistered allies who have kept Dain and Maren alive through three storms already. It also offers a debt neither of them can see coming. Somewhere inside the people they have trusted, someone is already talking to the Directorate, and finding out who will fall exactly where Dain's oldest flaw and Maren's oldest fear meet: his instinct to protect her by deciding for her, and her refusal to be decided for, tested now under a hunt that has stopped being institutional and started being personal. They have said the words neither of them said lightly. Forfeiture still waits, unclaimed, between them.

Four spans of storms, injuries never quite allowed to heal, and secrets kept for love rather than malice have brought them here, to a city choosing its own war and a commander who wants Dain specifically, not the cause he represents. When the Directorate answers Gravehold's defiance, it will not be slow, and it will not be fair. Whatever is left unsaid between Dain and Maren by then may be the only thing either of them has time to save.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176397826
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published