Charmaine Anna Ncube

"Silence is never empty. It watches. It listens. It waits."  For Elara Vance, freedom is an unfamiliar luxury. Raised under the iron fist of her aristocratic father, Sir Alistair, her life has been meticulously engineered into a series of polite silences and submissive calculations. When her father strikes a dark transactional arrangement to marry her off to the powerful and impatient Lord Sterling, Elara realizes her cage is about to close permanently.  But survival is only the beginning of becoming.