Vow of Silence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244796520)

Kira Sorrell's voice can bind vows.

That's why they're trying to steal it.

In Vesper City, "safety" is written in polite language and sealed with pretty ribbons-until the day you realize you can't speak the truth without choking. Kira has been investigating the pattern for weeks: small "voluntary" agreements that turn into invisible cages, citizens who can't name who trapped them, and a new program called the Silent Vows Initiative that's spreading through the canal districts like a hymn nobody asked to sing.

Then the trap snaps shut around her.

She should have died in that Crown office. Instead, a silent assassin cuts her free with a blade that makes no sound and leaves no witnesses. He doesn't give his name. He won't speak. He doesn't even touch her without permission.

He just drags her into hiding-because the Veil is coming, the Choir is inside the paperwork, and Kira's voice is the one thing that can unspool the coercion seam in front of a crowd.

His name is Dain. He's bound by a Silence-Oath that punishes speech, erases identity, and turns disobedience into pain. He's also been watching Kira for years to keep her alive... and he's about to break every rule he has to stop the city from going quiet forever.

Forced proximity. No map. No safe doors.

Only one consent-first singer-mage and one silence-sworn knife trying to outrun an engine that weaponizes "choice"-and calls it peace.

Because when the Choir learns to forge consent, refusal becomes the most dangerous song in the city.

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