Originally published: 2020

<P><strong>A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, <em>The Story of Silence</em> is a rich, multilayered new story for today's world - sure to delight fans of <em>Uprooted</em> and <em>The Bear and the Nightingale</em>.</strong></p>

There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador, a Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall, he secreted her away to be raised a boy so that the family land and honor would remain intact. That child's name was Silence. Now Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves. -- adapted from back cover