ASH & THRONE

Kael can hear what metal remembers.
Every sword he forges, every coin he touches, every door latch he handles-the metal whispers secrets. Fears embedded in iron. Rage trapped in steel. Thoughts that were never meant to be heard.
It's not a gift. It's a curse that killed his father.
Princess Aria wears a crown that screams.
Silver that belonged to her murdered sister. Metal that remembers everything-including who killed her and why. She's been forced into an arranged marriage to unite kingdoms, given thirty days to bury her grief and smile for politics.
But some truths refuse to stay silent.
When Kael accidentally touches Aria's crown during a festival, he hears everything-her rage, her fear, her sister's last desperate thoughts embedded in the silver. Their eyes meet across the crowd, and she knows. He heard what she's spent years trying to forget.
Someone is planning to assassinate her fiancé before the wedding. The evidence is hidden in metal across the castle. And one of the weapons was forged by Kael's own hands.
Now they're bound together in a deadly investigation-touching metal, following echoes, unraveling a conspiracy that reaches deeper than either of them imagined. With each secret they uncover, the attraction between them grows. But intimacy is invasion when you can hear someone's every thought.
And love is impossible when you know too much.
As the wedding day approaches, they discover a truth that will shatter everything: Aria's father killed her sister to secure the alliance. The crown she wears is evidence. The marriage she's being forced into is built on murder.
Aria must choose between peace and justice.
Kael must choose between silence and truth.
And both must decide if love can survive when there are no secrets left to hide.


In a world where metal remembers, some truths should stay buried.


A standalone medieval fantasy romance where knowing everything makes trust impossible, and the only way to love someone completely is to choose them anyway.