The Veil of Shadow and Blood Duology

Between Breath and Shadow

The dead do not stay silent. Sometimes they wait to be heard.

Isolde has always seen her sister.

Even after the funeral.

Even after the grave.

No one else can.

Her mother calls it grief.

The priests call it possession.

The nobles call her unstable.

But the girl who lingers in mirrors and moonlight looks too solid to be a memory.

When a voice whispers to Isolde from the bottom of an abandoned well, her sister begs her not to listen.

Isolde answers anyway.

And she gives it her name.

Something rises.

It is not a demon—but it is not benign either. Drawn by the name she offered into the dark, he turns his attention to her.

She can hear him.

He walks the seam between worlds—and she is the first to answer him.

He speaks truths no one else will—that the veil between life and death is thinning, and her sister is not trapped.

She is waiting.

She does not want to be alone.

As grief twists into something far more dangerous, Isolde must confront a terrifying possibility: the sister she mourned is no longer seeking comfort.

She is trying to come back.

Now Isolde must decide who she will believe—the sister who mirrors her face… or the shadow who reveals what she cannot see.

Because one of them wants her life.

And the other is the only one who knows who she truly is.