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The Silent Vow
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 24 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He is the cage. She is the key. Together, they will burn the world.
In the colossal city of Othyr, silence is not just a law-it is a religion. Here, the Unwritten is the ultimate heresy, and order is maintained by the Wardens: elite enforcers who have traded their humanity for the power of Iron and Ink.
Elara is a secret written in blood. Living in the poisonous depths of the Leechwarrens, she is a scavenger, a survivor, and a heretic. She hides a forbidden magic-the ability to write reality with her own blood-and a sentient ghost-tenant in her mind. She has spent her life invisible, a smudge of life in the stone, waiting for the day she can escape the city that wants her erased.
Kael is a fortress of control. As the city's most feared Warden, Kael is a man calcified by duty. Etched with the Bastion Script that grants him immense power, he is the wall that separates the city from the wild. But the wall is cracking. A corruption known as the Grey Tide is eating him alive, and the very system he protects is preparing to discard him.
Bound by a chain that screams. When a confrontation in the Ghost Market goes catastrophically wrong, Elara and Kael are not just thrown together-they are soul-bound. The Vinculum Anima connects them, mind and body. They share every pain, every thought, and a terrifying, ravenous hunger.
Now, the heretic and the hangman must rely on each other to survive a conspiracy that rots Othyr from the inside out. Hunted by the silent Censors and the shapeshifting horrors of the Pale Woods, they must make a choice: uphold the Written Truth that is killing them, or shatter the silence and write a new future in fire and blood.
Perfect for fans of Shatter Me, Fourth Wing, and The Hunger Games, The Silent Vow is a lyrical, high-stakes romantasy about the chaos of freedom and the violent beauty of falling in love with your enemy.
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