Veil of Silver Lies: a Dark Fae Romance Thornbound Chronicles Book

I was fifteen when I became a monster. Twenty-six when I became a spy. And somewhere between those two identities, I forgot how to be human.Riven Ashcroft lives between lies. Half-fae, half-human, she belongs to neither world—which makes her the perfect spy for the Dark Court’s most ruthless spymaster.For ten years, she’s worn masks and told half-truths. For ten years, Theron Wildhart has been her handler, her teacher, her everything she can’t have. Their relationship is professional. Necessary. Absolutely forbidden to become anything more.Until Queen Aurelia’s Summer Court threatens to shatter the fragile peace between humans and fae.Now Riven must infiltrate the most dangerous court in existence, where one slip means death and trust is a weapon. Where Lord Valen Thornspire collects broken things and Queen Aurelia rules through beauty and terror.Then her past walks back into her life wearing a familiar face.Caden Stormweaver—the boy she left behind, the man who leads the human resistance, the childhood love who thinks she betrayed everything they believed in. He doesn’t know she’s spent a decade protecting humans from the shadows. He doesn’t know she’s the spy working to prevent war.And she can’t tell him without destroying everything.Between the spymaster who’s loved her in silence and the rebel who never stopped searching, Riven must choose.But what if the real choice isn’t between two men—but between the woman she’s become and the girl she left to die in a burning village ten years ago?Some masks become faces. Some lies become truth. And some loves refuse to choose.