In Valerith, devotion is not felt - it is harvested.
Lyra Veyne serves the Veil Court as a living conduit, siphoning dangerous emotion to preserve order beneath an invisible Crown. Control is survival. Restraint is law.
Until Kael Thorne - a commander carved hollow by ritual and sealed against his own heart - begins to fracture the architecture of silence she has upheld for years.
When the system meant to stabilize the kingdom begins to unravel, Lyra and Kael are forced into a volatile alliance that ignites buried desire, shatters hidden power, and threatens to tear down the very foundation of their world.
To save their city, they must destroy the Crown.
To destroy the Crown, they must choose each other.
Thorns Beneath the Veil is a dark romantasy thriller about power, control, emotional autonomy, and the dangerous freedom of feeling without permission.