NOTE: All three books in the Bonds of Silence series are currently on NetGalley if you want to read them all. (you might have already read Unmarked & Unbonded)

Rienna Vale was never meant to survive freedom.

Beyond the Sanctum’s borders, the world doesn’t open, it fractures.

Cities move. Effigies burn. Corridors rearrange themselves when no one is looking. Chaos isn’t hidden here. It is designed, celebrated, and sold as progress.

Rienna and her bonds run straight into it. Into places where grief becomes architecture and celebration is built on buried bones. For the first time in her life, no gods are watching.

Or so it seems.

Because beyond the Sanctum, order has learned how to wear new masks.

As the four of them move deeper into the corridor, their bond stops being merely forbidden. It becomes visible. Readable and logged. Studied and sampled.

And Rienna can sense the moment when love stops being a private defiance and becomes something the world wants to measure.

She runs with:

Tamarath — a soldier now forced to choose between protecting what he loves and obeying what he was built to serve.

Mirón — an engineer who knows that systems don’t fail by accident.

Kyartan — a pilot who turns visibility into rebellion, even when being seen puts all of them in danger.

Together, they uncover a truth more dangerous than gods or machines:

You don’t need violence to control people if you can convince them that relief is kindness.

In a settlement designed to absorb emotion before it becomes resistance, love is no longer forbidden, it’s regulated.

For Rienna, the temptation is terrifyingly real. Because you can’t anesthetize love without killing it. And you can’t save a world by making it numb.

Stability is the seduction.

Relief is the leash.

Love is still the rebellion.

This is the third book in an epic sci-fi romantasy series. Start Rienna’s story with Unmarked & Unbonded.