What the Wind Reveals: 2

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She spent a year surviving his world. Now he's in hers, and her court has already decided he won't leave alive. Syllia Theren knows Whisperwind Vale's weapons: layered implication, political silence, and composure that admits nothing. What she doesn't know is what to do with an orc heir who endures weeks of deliberate court humiliation without breaking, or why watching him refuse to perform weakness makes it harder to pretend she doesn't care what happens to him.Zarfu Varr isn't built for Skyreach Palace's pale corridors and loaded dinner tables. He learns to fight in her language anyway. Their training sessions were supposed to be practical. They stopped being practical. And Syllia, who has spent her entire life suppressing the wind magic that moves when she stops pretending, is running out of room to pretend.Then an assassin's blade finds her in a corridor only court insiders knew she'd use. The wind she's spent decades hiding doesn't ask permission. Neither does the choice she makes in front of her father, her council, and every political ally still betting against this marriage.Some things, once the wind reveals them, can't be taken back. Book Two in The Blackspire Accord series. Start reading today.

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Pages: 288, Paperback, J.F.O. Black