The King Who Ate Her Name

He conquered by erasing names. She is the one woman who can remember what he stole.

Saela Veyr has survived a kingdom where names are more than identity-they are power, memory, inheritance, and weapons. Her rare gift as a Witness lets her see the seams left behind when a person or a history has been altered. It also makes her dangerous to the system that keeps the realm obedient.

Rhydian Vale is the king at the center of that system: feared, controlled, and bound to an Archive capable of stripping people from memory itself. When Saela is pulled into his court, attraction collides with distrust, and every truth she uncovers makes it harder to decide whether Rhydian is the architect of the kingdom's cruelty or another of its prisoners.

As erased houses begin resurfacing, old loyalties fracture and the Archive demands a greater price. Saela must decide how much of herself she is willing to risk to restore what was stolen-without becoming another person who believes power gives her the right to choose for everyone else.

And Rhydian must decide whether he can surrender the one thing his rule was built to protect: control.

The King Who Ate Her Name is Book One of The Archive Cycle, an adult dark fantasy romance about memory, consent, political power, dangerous intimacy, and the cost of being truly known.