She was sent to steal one secret from the Whispering Throne. She did not expect its Keeper to already know her name.

Ossara Vael has spent twelve years perfecting the art of becoming exactly what people need her to be a Shade-Speaker who hears lies the way others hear music, deployed by House Velthar into courts that don't suspect her, extracting secrets that don't belong to her, and moving on before anything can stick. She is exceptional at this work. She has never once let it matter.

Valdremn Keep is supposed to be the same. The dying empire's Obsidian Throne holds four centuries of dead rulers compressed into its seals their decisions, their griefs, their buried shames, all kept in careful order by the Wraith-Keeper known only as the Null. He speaks in precise truths. He sees everything that moves through these walls. He has been alone with the weight of the dead for nine years, and on the morning Ossara crosses the outer gate, the binding shudders in recognition. He identifies her before she has unpacked her case. He does not arrest her. He assigns himself as her liaison instead which means one of them is playing a game the other cannot read, and the binding between them is not the only thing beginning to fracture.

Because someone in the highest circles of Valdremn's nobility has been deliberately weakening the throne's seals.

The dead are bleeding through into the living court. And the shade-echoes pressing through the Veil are not speaking at random they are speaking to her, in the frequency where lies unravel and truth refuses to stay buried, with a message that will overturn everything she thought she was sent here to find.

Two people trained to read the truth in every room they enter. One court built entirely on beautiful lies. And a secret sealed inside an obsidian throne that House Velthar sent Ossara to retrieve that is not, it turns out, what they told her it was.

What she was sent to extract could destroy an empire. What she discovers could rebuild one. What she feels for the man guarding its secrets may be the most dangerous thing of all.

Throne of Whispered Secrets is a complete standalone dark court political intrigue spicy romantasy featuring enemies-to-lovers slow burn, forced proximity, he-falls-first devotion, a morally complex cast of characters, and a love story woven so deeply into the political conspiracy that neither can be resolved without the other. Heat level: explicit. HEA guaranteed.

For readers of Sarah J. Maas, Danielle L. Jensen, and Holly Black. If you loved A Court of Silver Flames, The Bridge Kingdom, or The Cruel Prince the Whisper Court is waiting.