who he is
tiernan is not a good man. he doesn’t pretend to be. he is the man people cross the street to avoid, the name spoken quietly in rooms, the one-eyed killer nobody wants to look at too long.
and then she became his wife.
here’s the thing about tiernan that nobody warns you about. he sees her. completely. in a world that treats her like she’s broken because she’s deaf, he looks at her and sees exactly who she is — how strong she is, how much she’s survived, how little she needs anyone’s pity. and once he sees her like that, he cannot stop.
he will not apologize. he will not open up. he will not suddenly become someone safe. but he will stop the night from falling if darkness scares her. and somehow that’s enough to ruin you entirely.
this book is dark. genuinely, properly dark. and tiernan is the reason you keep reading anyway.
