The Wolf at the Opera

Liora Fen was once the most promising voice in the kingdom—until the royal opera erased her name and left scars across her throat. Now its brightest star has vanished, blood stains her dressing-room door, and Liora is forced onto the stage as her replacement. But the moment she sings, forbidden magic awakens. Before a horrified audience, her voice reveals the memory of a murder the Crown buried years ago. The palace calls her a killer. The city calls her a weapon. And Malrec Vale—the dangerously controlled royal regulator whose touch can command her enchanted voice—may be the only man capable of keeping her alive. He was trained to silence women like her. She has every reason to hate him. Yet as they flee through burning theaters, secret tunnels and haunted archives, their uneasy alliance becomes something far more dangerous: desire. Every song exposes another royal crime. Every truth tightens the curse around Liora’s throat. And somewhere beneath the opera house, the dead are still singing. To save her voice, her people and the man she is beginning to love, Liora must perform the one song the Crown has spent generations trying to erase. But if she sings its final note, the entire kingdom may hear the truth—and she may never speak again.

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