BOOK ONE

Of Silence

In a kingdom built on and ruled by fear, two lives unfold on opposite sides of a curse that’s beginning to burn.

Of Silence follows Serya, a girl with fire in her blood and a past she was never meant to survive, and Thane, a loyal soldier bound to a kingdom that’s rotting from the inside. When fate drives them into the heart of a war neither fully understands, both must confront the truth: they were never meant to escape what’s coming. They were meant to ignite it.

Told through dual perspectives, Of Silence is the first book in the Ashmarked series—a dark romantic fantasy of haunted forests, forbidden magic, slow-burn tension, and the kind of choices that scar.