Throne Of Salt And Silence-Romantic fantasy

Throne of Salt and Silence She was sent to kill the king. She failed on purpose. Caelith has spent eight years as the perfect weapon, trained, precise, and pointed at whatever target her handler Thessaly chose. Her newest mission is simple: infiltrate the court of King Kael of Varenthos, earn his trust, and end his reign. She has done harder things. But the king knows she is coming. He leaves a blade on the table between them and offers her a room with a lock on the inside instead of a cell, and when she should complete her mission she finds herself unable to, because the man she was sent to destroy has been keeping a secret in the lowest room of his Keep, hundreds of names carved into stone, the names of tribute children taken from the outer islands, including hers. Including her brother‘s. The deeper she goes, the more the mission fractures. The Silence spreading across the Stillwater is not a natural phenomenon. It is a construction. And the person who built it is the same person who built Caelith. Now she is running out of time, out of lies, and out of reasons to keep pretending she is still the weapon she arrived as. The king is not her enemy. But the woman who made her is already on her way.