Duskhollow Cycle The Black Aerie, Book 1, Book 1, (Paperback)

<p><strong>She came to expose the institution that murdered her father. She did not expect to bond the oldest creature in the empire, or to fall for the man her father told her to fear.</strong><br>Rosie Hanson has spent three years preparing to walk into Duskhollow Citadel and finish what her father started.<br>A damaged knee. Six hidden daggers. Hair that marks her in every room she enters. And against her sternum, an encrypted cipher key her father died protecting, containing evidence that the three-hundred-year-old treaty binding the Vael to the empire is built on a lie the Compact has killed to keep buried.<br>She has a plan. It is a good plan.<br>It does not survive Soren Ashveil. </p><p>The youngest Senior Wingleader in Aerie history. Marked at six years old as the son of a traitor. Cold, lethal, impossibly observant, and the last person her brother told her to trust. He sees her the moment she walks through the gates, and he says nothing, and the silence is worse than any greeting could be. </p><p>When the ancient Vael Maren descends from a tower, no creature her age should be able to reach and chooses Rosie in front of the entire cohort, the careful plan becomes something else entirely. The Sable Wing is watching. The clock is running. And the man Rosie cannot afford to want is hiding something that will either save her life or end it.<br>Some institutions deserve to fall. Some truths cost more than the people who carry them can pay. And some loves are built in the dark, under pressure, with insufficient information, by two people who have every reason not to choose each other and choose each other anyway. </p><p>The Black Aerie is the first book in a sweeping new dark fantasy romance for readers and lovers of romantasy. It is a story about institutions that should know better, bonds that cost something to keep, and the specific defiance of refusing to be small. </p><p><strong>The Vael have been waiting three hundred years. The wait is over.</strong></p>

• Duskhollow Cycle The Black Aerie, Book 1, Book 1, (Paperback)
• Author: Nelda Guzman
• ISBN: 9798235052499
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-27
• Page Count: 320