In a place built on bones and lies, love will break her completely.
Kira arrives at the Sacred Ossuarium believing she has finally escaped the suffocating judgment of Blackreach. The academy is the pinnacle of necromantic scholarship, a place where her silent communion with the dead is a rare gift. Here, she hopes to bury her past, master her craft, and carve out a future far from anyone who ever pitied her for being deaf.
But the Ossuarium’s vaulted halls are not the refuge she imagined.
Beneath its candlelit halls and scholarly rituals lies a hidden commerce in stolen lives—an ancient, forbidden trade the Church denies even as the dead whisper its truth. And the translator assigned to her, a man infuriatingly beautiful, seems to be carrying secrets dangerous enough to spell her doom.
As Kira witnesses the Church’s cruelty firsthand, her ambitions collapse into ash. Drawn into a conspiracy that threads through both the living world and the realm of the dead, she must wield forbidden magic, navigate treacherous alliances, and confront a darkness older than the Ossuarium itself.
To challenge such power is to risk everything: her future, her friendships, the dangerous pull of the man she should not trust—and her life.
