The dead come to her. He chose to stay.

Amadella Vaelora is the warning mothers whisper. The last daughter of House Tanzanite lives alone in the haunted forest of Nytherra, breaking curses, tending spirits, and carrying the blame for a betrayal three centuries old. The crown calls her bloodline a curse. The dead know better — and lately, the dead arrive wounded, whispering that the darkness pressing her wards has learned to aim.
Commander Theron Valseic gave the crown his sword, his silence, and his whole ordered life. His reward is an assassin's curse buried beneath his ribs with surgical cruelty — and a slow death designed so that no one would ever know what killed him.

Then he falls through her ward.

Saving him should be simple. It isn't. The curse in his blood carries a court seal, the healing bond that can draw it out demands a choice from both of them — and the bond hides nothing. Not his loyalty to the crown that erased her family. Not her loneliness. Not the truth buried in the archives of Silverden Crossing that could either restore her house or finish what the purge began.

Trust is how ruin begins. Every old lie says so. But if Amadella's truth stays buried, the Shroud takes more than her forest — and if Theron keeps his vows to the crown, he loses the only thing he has ever freely chosen.

The House of Tanzanite is a high-heat adult fantasy romance featuring a wounded commander and a forbidden healer, forced proximity, a consent-gated magical bond, slow-burn devotion, spirit magic, political betrayal, found family, and a complete happily-ever-after. Content notes are included inside the book.