Crowned in Ash: A Court of the Undertow Novel by Joanna Ivy THORNCASTLE

She came to bury a secret. He's the only one who can keep it — at a cost neither of them can survive alone. Elara has just killed her own brother to protect a truth her family has guarded for two centuries. She goes to the one man in the Court of the Undertow who can make it disappear forever: Silas Vane, Lord of Silence — feared, patient, and unbreakable, a man who has never once let anyone close enough to threaten the composure he's spent two hundred years perfecting. But the oath she swears doesn't stay buried where she means to leave it. It reaches back through history — to a rebellion that killed a Keeper, to a bargain Silas made as a dying, desperate boy, and to a debt that has been waiting two centuries to finally come due. Now an ancient, patient power wants payment, and the price is a silence far crueler than anything either of them has ever sworn. As three houses move to protect their own two-hundred-year-old guilt, and a debt older than the Court itself closes in, Silas and Elara must decide what they're willing to surrender: their safety, their secrets, or the self-preservation that has kept them both from ever truly being known. Read more