The Ninth Silence

About the book

In Vael, nine centuries of certainty rest on the Accord, an invisible bargain that binds reality to the laws of magic, with every miracle carrying a cost enforced by the Conclave of Measures. Taren Vey, a seventeen-year-old clock repairer from the provincial city of Bellwether, has no noble blood or magical training, but he remembers events everyone else denies. When an entire street vanishes overnight, only Taren recalls it, and his search for proof draws him into the Collegium of Nine Measures, where students learn to negotiate the laws of cause and effect. Across the land, impossible events are spreading, and the stakes rise as Taren must decide what he is willing to risk for the truth.