In Whispers of the Elixir, you’ll find the political intrigue of The Bone Shard Daughter, the lush worldbuilding of The Bear and the Nightingale, and the emotional resonance of The Sword of Kaigen.

A matriarchal empire. A princess with forbidden magic. A mother who would kill to protect her own legacy.

As heir to the Min empire, Princess Tori has lived under the shadow of her mother, Empress Zinchen—an iron-willed ruler determined to shape the world in her own image. But Tori has been hiding a secret: a forbidden elemental power tied to the world’s mythic past. If Zinchen discovers the truth, it will cost Tori her life.

Driven into the hidden lands, Tori enters a realm of ghost-flowers, sentient forests, and immortals from a half-remembered age. Here, magic is neither blessing nor curse but a crucible—shaping, testing, and destroying in turn. To survive her mother’s ambition, Tori must suppress the magic that could doom her—but in doing so, she risks losing the very future she was born to inherit.

Whispers of the Elixir launches the Order of the Ember, a planned four-book epic of legacy, sacrifice, and the strength of a princess destined to rise from the shadows and claim her place in legend.

Debut author C.P. Silver delivers a world as enchanting as it is deadly with Whispers of the Elixir, a richly layered fantasy of ambition, legacy, and forbidden power.