Silver Scars - Chris Bazely

A starving Prince. A broken Mender. A kingdom of 34,000 ghosts.

Elara thought walking away from Kaelen was the only way to survive. She thought by leaving the Prince of Oakhaven in the ruins of his obsession, she could finally be free of the silver bond that nearly consumed her.

She was wrong.

The silver tether doesn't care about betrayal. It only cares about survival. As Kaelen's mind begins to fracture without Elara's light, a darker threat emerges from the shadows of the palace. King Malphas has stopped hiding his true intentions, and he doesn't just want Elara's Mending-he wants to weaponize it to enslave a hive of 34,000 Feral souls.

When Kaelen is forced into a withdrawal that threatens to turn him into a monster, Elara must return to the lion's den. But the man she finds in the High Tower is no longer the Prince she loved. He is a weapon forged in pain, and the King is holding the hilt.

In a world of bone sieges and obsidian duels, Elara will have to do the unthinkable: Un-mend the very soul she once swore to protect.

The second installment of The Silver Tether is a dark, high-heat fantasy romance filled with forced proximity, a "who did this to you" protector, and a cliffhanger that will leave you breathless.

"The tether never dies... it just finds a new throat to choke."