He stopped speaking to keep a dragon from being commanded. She has never met a silence she could not make answer.
Rinna Denvor repairs the records powerful people would rather leave broken. When the Candlevault sends her to catalogue the black-iron fortress of the silent warlord Marek Ashbarrow, she expects locked rooms, bad weather, and a man determined to make her request a transfer.She does not expect the dragon beneath Ironhush to answer her jokes.
Marek has not spoken aloud in six years. His voice is the key to a buried command bell, and the last person who used it nearly turned the northern pass into a graveyard. He has kept the dragon quiet, the fortress closed, and every curious visitor at arm's length.
Then Rinna reads an old treaty and hears the missing line hiding inside it: the dragon was never meant to obey. The Regent who sent her to catalogue the fortress is searching for the same command bell, and he will arrest anyone who proves the original compact was rewritten.
Now the talkative archive keeper and the grumpy warlord must expose a three-generation lie before the court forces a dragon to burn for its peace. To survive, they will need a treaty, a witness, and the courage to let silence end where trust begins.
Perfect for readers who love a sunshine heroine who will argue with a locked door, a grumpy fae warlord who is rude for a reason, a dragon with its own political voice, and a slow-burn romance that turns a fortress into home.
- A talkative archive keeper with a hidden gift for hearing erased words
A silent fae warlord guarding a dangerous voice-vow
A warm-gold dragon answering through black iron
A corrupt Regent and a rewritten treaty
Standalone adult romantasy with open-door romance and a satisfying HEA
Full-length fantasy romance. Intended for adult readers.
Genre: Fantasy
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