Elara Wynn repairs damaged relics for people who prefer their history quiet. She is good at restoring broken things without asking why they were broken, until a sealed silver mirror arrives in the hidden conservation annex and a man speaks from inside the glass. His name is Cassian Draven, and he has been trapped behind the mirror for two centuries. Official history says the Glassfall ended long ago. Cassian is living proof that the story is a lie. Elara's strange sensitivity to the memories held by objects makes her the first person able to hear him clearly, but every attempt to uncover the mirror's past draws her deeper into royal secrets, erased records, and a system built to turn inconvenient lives into polished legends. Cassian has survived by refusing to let captivity erase who he is. Elara has survived by staying useful, quiet, and almost invisible. Together, they become dangerous to a court that depends on both of those habits remaining intact. Their growing bond is complicated by the glass between them, by the possibility that freedom may carry its own cost, and by a truth powerful enough to change who has the right to claim the crown. To bring Cassian back into the world, Elara may have to stop repairing history and start breaking the version everyone has been ordered to believe. The mirror has waited centuries for a witness. Now it has found one.
Elara Wynn repairs damaged relics for people who prefer their history quiet. She is good at restoring broken things without asking why they were broken, until a sealed silver mirror arrives in the hidden conservation annex and a man speaks from inside the glass. His name is Cassian Draven, and he...