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A Crown of Tears and Treason

The Curse of Silver Secrets and Cruel Shadows, Book 1

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A Crown of Tears and Treason

By: Vera Raye
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Jeremy York
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To keep my family safe and prevent a devastating Clan war, I would do anything—even marry the powerful prince I’ve hidden from all my life.

When the vicious Blood Brotherhood prince I’ve been hidden from all my life finally comes to claim me at my wedding and kills my heinous groom, he gives me one choice—stay here and take my chances with the unknown force raining poisoned arrows on my ceremony or leave with him as his bride.

He’s the man I was raised to fear.

He’s the most ruthless warrior in all of Malhaven.

Few dare to even speak his name.

But with my family’s safety on the line, I choose the unthinkable and agree to become his queen.

As I try to adjust to my new home, the treacherous ways of Clan life, and learn the magic I was forbidden from practicing, I discover that the enemy I once feared might be the only one I can trust–and the sole person I can’t resist.

But the secret he’s keeping might finally accomplish what the assassins failed to do–destroy everyone I love and shatter our world forever.

A Crown of Tears and Treason is book one in the first duology of the A Curse of Silver Secrets and Cruel Shadows series. It’s a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy where banter is a love language and secrets can kill. The series starts out hot and only gets hotter as the mystery grows.

In the War of the Clans, which side will you choose? Protectorate VS Blood Brotherhood.

©2024 Vera Raye (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing
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I’d never heard of the book when it popped up on Audible but thought why not give it a listen and I’m glad I did it’s a great story that had me in tears at the end, the performance from the female narrator was good however I felt the voice didn’t quite match the character, and the male narrator was very wooden and quite irritating luckily he didn’t say much. I’ll definitely be checking out the 2nd book however I much read it rather than listen to it,

Great story that keeps me wanting to listen

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This was an amazing story. The narrators did a fab job of bringing this story to life. The ending had me gobsmacked! The absolute rage I had on behalf of the female character! Wow! Thankfully I can dive into book 2 straight away

Epic storytelling

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Really enjoyed the storyline and also the slow burn;it’s not too obvious which I love

Love the story

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This was a nice little surprise after the past few books I’ve read! Decent story, and so far not really finding the fmc annoying which is deffo a plus!

Unexpectedly good!

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Unfortunately this story just didn’t grip me, I have read a lot of fantasy books and there was nothing new or gripping about the storyline or the characters that manage to grip me. So it was a bit of a drag to get through, until the end with that devastating twist which made it more interesting again, but not enough for me to go through book 2, also the twist annoyed me as I will not be rooting for them to re kindle id rather her get revenge… anyway yea a bit of a boring story because they were unable to reveal the oath

Just couldn’t buy into the story or characters

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