Throne of Ash and Shadow: Vol. 2: The Shattered Veil

The Veil is torn. The silence is listening.

The city of Lumina has fallen. In a desperate act to stop a catastrophic ritual, Elara Vance, a girl hiding a forbidden power, shattered the Great Wards that have protected the city for centuries. But her victory came at a devastating cost: the city's magic is gone, and so is her own. In the oppressive silence, a new, more ancient threat stirs.

Stripped of her magic and hunted by a broken Guild, Elara must forge a new path. Her power, once a thing of quiet shadows, has been reborn as something far more terrifying-the ability to unmake reality itself. This new gift, or curse, makes her the most dangerous person in the dying city, and an object of fear and awe to her only ally, the disgraced investigator Cassian Vale.

As chaos consumes the streets and lawless gangs rise, ancient seals linked to the fallen Wards begin to fail. Formless horrors-the life-draining echoes, the memory-devouring Glutton, and the desiccating Weaver of Despair-are awakening from their ageless slumber, drawn to the fear of a vulnerable populace. To save Lumina from being consumed, Elara and Cassian must hunt these new monsters, venturing into forbidden places like the Sunken Library and the Silent Forge.

Guided by a heretical scholar and a magical Tome that shows the city's conceptual wounds, Elara must learn to master the terrifying abyss within her. She must choose between being a shield or a sword, between control and absolute power, before the final seal breaks and unleashes the Silent King, an entity whose perfect order is the ultimate annihilation.

In Throne of Ash and Shadow: The Shattered Veil, the stakes have evolved from a conspiracy against the city to a war for its very soul. Can a girl who commands nothingness find the strength to create a new future, or will the hungering silence consume her and everything she's fighting to protect?