The Wound Beneath Silver Mercy: A Fantasy Romance of Forbidden Healing, Buried Grief and a Love That Refuses Sacrifice
Angie Gomez
DENISE LINDSTROM · AI-narrated by Madison (from Google)
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Rowan Hale is celebrated as the golden-handed healer of the Sanctum of Silver Mercy, a man who can draw grief and pain out of strangers and carry it inside himself. The city calls him blessed. His trembling hands tell a different story. Years of absorbing other people’s suffering have turned mercy into a slow private wound, and Rowan has learned to smile while it deepens. Then Celeste Ward arrives with a condition the Sanctum fears more than it understands. Her grief magic does not behave like a disease, and when her power meets Rowan’s, something happens neither doctrine nor training can explain: their wounds answer each other without one consuming the other. Celeste refuses to be treated as a danger simply because her pain is visible. Rowan cannot stop seeing how closely her confinement resembles the quiet sacrifice expected of him. As old records surface about forgotten grief practices and the people once entrusted with them, powerful healers push for controlled trials, forced procedures, and a cleaner story than the truth will allow. Attraction grows between two people who have both been taught that suffering makes them useful, yet neither wants love to become another excuse for self-destruction. Rowan must confront the institution that made a saint out of his silence, while Celeste must decide whether trusting him can be different from surrendering herself to another healer’s hands. The deeper they go, the more dangerous the buried history becomes. If mercy has always demanded a victim, their bond may be the first proof that healing can mean something else, but only if they refuse to become sacrifices for everyone watching.
Rowan Hale is celebrated as the golden-handed healer of the Sanctum of Silver Mercy, a man who can draw grief and pain out of strangers and carry it inside himself. The city calls him blessed. His trembling hands tell a different story. Years of absorbing other people’s suffering have turned merc...
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