Silas's Promise
(2026)(The fifth book in the Guardians of Blackwood Falls series)
A novel by Ivy Noir
He swore those words to her at nineteen.
He's been saying them to himself in the dark every night since.
Nora
We were nineteen on a hill outside town when he gave me his promise, word for word, under a sky full of stars. His letters got shorter until they stopped coming at all, and I built a life around the silence. Sixteen years later I drove a thousand miles to find out if he was still alive. He is. He's harder now, quieter, the kind of stillness that pulls a room shut around him. And the second he put his hand on mine across his workbench, I knew nothing in me had moved on. I want him to say those four words to me again. I want him to mean them with his mouth on every inch of me he made himself forget.
Silas
Sixteen years of silence, and she walks back into my life still wearing the scent of the girl I left on a dark hill. I spent a decade overseas teaching myself not to want anything, because hope is what gets you killed over there. I came home hollow on purpose. Then she put her hand on mine across a workbench, and the steadiness I built out of nine years of holding men together cracked open in one second. The promise I made her at nineteen has lived in my mouth ever since. I want to keep it on her body now, slow, one word at a time, until she forgets there was ever a sixteen-year silence between us.
Silas's Promise is book five in the Guardians of Blackwood Falls series. A childhood-sweethearts, second-chance military romance with a soldier who never once stopped loving her and a woman who refuses to leave him in the dark. Standalone HEA.
Genre: Romance
He's been saying them to himself in the dark every night since.
Nora
We were nineteen on a hill outside town when he gave me his promise, word for word, under a sky full of stars. His letters got shorter until they stopped coming at all, and I built a life around the silence. Sixteen years later I drove a thousand miles to find out if he was still alive. He is. He's harder now, quieter, the kind of stillness that pulls a room shut around him. And the second he put his hand on mine across his workbench, I knew nothing in me had moved on. I want him to say those four words to me again. I want him to mean them with his mouth on every inch of me he made himself forget.
Silas
Sixteen years of silence, and she walks back into my life still wearing the scent of the girl I left on a dark hill. I spent a decade overseas teaching myself not to want anything, because hope is what gets you killed over there. I came home hollow on purpose. Then she put her hand on mine across a workbench, and the steadiness I built out of nine years of holding men together cracked open in one second. The promise I made her at nineteen has lived in my mouth ever since. I want to keep it on her body now, slow, one word at a time, until she forgets there was ever a sixteen-year silence between us.
Silas's Promise is book five in the Guardians of Blackwood Falls series. A childhood-sweethearts, second-chance military romance with a soldier who never once stopped loving her and a woman who refuses to leave him in the dark. Standalone HEA.
Genre: Romance
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