The Warded Heart

Wren Halloway can hear a lie the moment it is spoken — a gift that makes her the most sought-after bookbinder in Bellmarch, and the most dangerous woman at court. When the king's spymaster, Caspian Thorn, walks into her shop with a confession he cannot speak and a mission he cannot refuse, Wren discovers that the one man whose words she cannot read is the one man she cannot afford to trust. As a web of court intrigue tightens around them, Wren must decide whether the truth she hears is worth the price of the lie she has lived. A slow-burn romantic fantasy of secrets, spies, and a love that refuses to be bound.