Moonmarked Tide

She escaped the crown. But the moon never forgets its favorite mouth. Marked by a curse that turns breath into a weapon, Vesper has learned the only way to survive: stay silent, stay sealed, stay nothing. Bound in salt and iron, tethered to the man who refuses to let her break, she fights a hunger that isn't just inside her throat… but woven into the land itself. When a mouthless valley offers her the impossible—quiet without echo—Vesper believes she's found a place where the curse can finally starve. She's wrong. Because the valley isn't empty. It's a lid. And something beneath it has started to wake. As relics surface from dark water—crowns, bells, shards of moonlit bone—Vesper realizes the curse was never meant to end… only to be passed on. And when the hunger begins reaching for the one thing she can't sacrifice— Draven— she must face the most dangerous truth of all: Silence isn't freedom. It's training. Now, with the tide rising and the moon's pull tightening, Vesper must decide what she's willing to become— a lock that never opens, or a weapon the world will learn to fear. Because some love stories aren't written in vows… They're written in restraint. And blood. And the devastating choice to survive without ever speaking the words that could destroy them both.