Weight of Wings and Silence

Mara has outlived empires. As a Hybrid Fae archivist in the futuristic city of Aurelian, she has spent thirty years quietly curating the grief of the powerful, absorbing trauma, erasing inconvenient histories, keeping the city's emotional architecture intact. She has mastered the performance of a secondhand life. Then Elian Cross walks into a winery sale, and everything she has built begins to rot.Elian is a Nullborn ancient, uneditable, and precise. He cannot be rewritten, which means Mara's magic collapses in his presence. The closer he gets, the more the city's curated peace fractures. Their resonance doesn't just destabilize each other. It destabilizes everything.What follows is a slow, agonizing negotiation between two people who have survived centuries by refusing to need anyone and who are now, against every instinct, becoming each other's fixed point.But the city is breaking open. The Shadow Monarch wants Mara back in the Veil. The High Courts are watching. And Mara is beginning to understand that the secondhand life, the one shaped entirely by duty, law, and other people's grief was never service. It was safety. The kind that costs you everything you are.A Weight of Wings and Silence is a lush, slow-burn fantasy romance about power, memory, identity, and what it means to finally choose your own life. For readers of romantasy with atmospheric world-building, complex heroines, and heat that earns every page.Content note: This book contains explicit sexual content, themes of grief and emotional suppression, magical violence, and systemic power imbalance. Intended for readers 18+.