The Marriage of Two Spies

Wrenna Strake and Castan Brevard are elite spies from enemy crowns, married as a border-treaty peace offering and bound by the Concord Veil: a glamour that makes deliberate lies flicker on the liar’s skin, visible only to the spouse.

Neither can read the content of a lie, only its presence. Over thirty days of half-truths, forged reports, and a bridal manor full of listening walls, their mutual deception becomes the only honest room in the war. When a chancellor tries to turn the marriage into a reason for bloodshed, Wrenna and Castan must decide whether to betray their crowns or each other.

We were married to spy on each other. The bond shows me every time he lies, but never what the lie was.