He spoke to the night.
I listened-before knowing he was my enemy.
In a world where borders are drawn in blood and silence is enforced by law, a single voice crosses the dark.
Aeren is the ruler of Noxvair, a kingdom bound to night and magic that exacts its price without mercy. His voice is not a gift but a burden-used to soothe the dead, contain grief, and keep his people from unraveling. Every sound he sends into the dark costs him something he can never reclaim. Memory by memory, the night collects.
Across the border lies Esthea, a kingdom of light, order, and vigilance. Elian serves its doctrine with disciplined obedience, trained to observe, to judge, and never to listen to what should not exist. In Esthea, visibility is safety. Silence is control. And anything that slips past its wards is treated as corruption.
When a voice from beyond the border reaches him-low, restrained, carrying grief without spectacle-Elian knows he should report it. Condemn it. Erase it.
Instead, he listens.
What begins as an intrusion becomes an intimacy neither of them can name. The voice carries more than sound: it carries restraint, exhaustion, and a cost paid in fragments of the self. With each night, the distance between kingdoms narrows-not in miles, but in awareness.
Their connection is forbidden. Dangerous. Politically impossible.
And yet, it persists.
As tension builds along the border and the night proves it does not care for treaties, both men are forced to confront what listening truly means. Is hearing another a form of betrayal-or the first act of understanding? How much of oneself can be sacrificed before silence becomes survival?
The Voice Between Enemies is a slow-burn romantasy steeped in darkness, restraint, and consequence. Blending political fantasy with forbidden intimacy, it explores desire without touch, connection without permission, and the devastating cost of being heard.
This is not a story of love that saves the world.
It is a story of what love costs when the world refuses to allow it.
Book One of the Crown of Silence Trilogy.
