Vow of Silence

VOW OF SILENCEBook II of The Seven Vows & MemorybladeIn Caerith, silence is not peace.It is law.The capital has spent centuries regulating sound, suppressing speech, and turning fear into procedure. Birds are gone from the rooftops. Grief requires permission. Children inherit vows they never chose. And those who carry Silence learn early that the truth is not what hurts them most.It is what they are allowed to say.Seren has survived fire, judgment, and the first awakening of powers no one fully understands. Now she must face something more intimate: a vow that does not bind her from the outside, but seems to carry its own rule within her.Every sentence becomes a risk.Every truth has a cost.As she learns from those who have spent their lives bleeding for words, Seren begins to uncover what the empire has misunderstood for four hundred years. Silence was never simply about keeping quiet. It was about control, consent, and the terrible power of deciding who gets to speak.But the deeper Seren goes, the more dangerous the question becomes:If a vow can exist without a binder, without a House, and without permission…who, or what, is really giving the command?Vow of Silence is the second novel in The Seven Vows & Memoryblade, a dark speculative fantasy series about power, memory, inherited systems, and the cost of choosing your own voice.