Twenty years of silence. Five fragments of a dead language. One chance to end everything.The Empress of Valdris has not spoken in twenty years. Her silence is not weakness — it is the most powerful political act in the empire's history. Every word she withholds is a refusal to be weaponized. Every decree she writes is a scalpel. She has been waiting, quietly and patiently, for the pieces of the Ashen Accord to find their way to her.Now they have.Rael was the Conclave's most trusted archivist. He has also spent twelve years building a case against them from the inside, document by document. He arrives at the Veiled Palace carrying everything: all five fragments from across the empire, a full translation of the Accord's counter-curse, and the most dangerous piece of knowledge in Valdris.Only the Empress can speak it. And to speak it, she will have to break the vow that made her.As the Conclave closes in on what they've lost and what Rael has taken, Ilara and Rael must navigate a court full of enemies, a trust that builds word by unspoken word, and the terrifying recognition that the empire's future is not the only thing worth protecting.Epic, devastating, and luminously romantic. The Empress of Unspoken Things is the stunning conclusion to The Ashen Throne Chronicles — for readers who stayed for every silence and waited for the one word that would change everything.
