J.M. CORVINUS
DISSONANCE
Book One of The Silence Between
A family holds. A country tears. A quiet figure walks the road.
In a frontier town that calls them demons, a woodworker and his wife raise two corvae boys as their own. The work is steady, the pantry is never quite full, and the almanac is read aloud at night in a voice the children will carry for the rest of their lives — until the road takes one son to a merchant’s cart, the other to a silent monastery, and the country into a war that has been patient with them both.
Dissonance is the first movement of The Silence Between, a tetralogy of dark literary fantasies. A kingdom built on order. A brotherhood shaped by strangers. An armored figure on the far road, waiting for the family to finish the song it was asked not to sing.
THE BOOK
Dissonance
Briden is a small town at the edge of a large empire, and the Maren household lives at the edge of Briden. Kael is an inferis woodworker whose horns the town has never learned to look past. Sera is the human woman who married him and refused to be quiet about it. One winter morning Sera carries home two corvae fledglings in her shawl — dark-feathered, half-frozen, mimicking a woman’s voice that is not hers. The boys, once named, never leave.
The brothers grow up in a house that the world has agreed to tolerate. Asher watches everything with a protective hunger that will one day become fire. Cawsley listens to the world as music, arranges bright objects into private liturgies, and sings the notes the piano does not contain. For a handful of years the kitchen holds. Then the roads open, the war begins to draw breath, and the boys are separated by hands that mean well and by hands that do not.
Dissonance follows the family across that fracture. A merchant’s cart on a borderland route. A silent cloister where killing is taught as the restoration of harmony. A capital whose blood-mage sovereign has built an apparatus she cannot bring herself to see clearly. And a mythic figure of armored radiance — the Platinum Angel — moving quietly through the empire’s shadow work, on a road the brothers will both, eventually, have to walk.
The first book of The Silence Between, Dissonance is about the love a family spends its life building and the country that spends its life trying to take it back. Told in rotating points of view across warmth, whisper, and fire, it is a quiet novel about loud things: prejudice, grief, inheritance, and the terrible patience of the world outside the door.
THE SERIES
The Silence Between
The Silence Between is a tetralogy of dark literary fantasies set on the continent of Thaeron and the world called Sonara — four movements scored to the intensifying colors of the visible spectrum. Each volume turns the interval a half-step further: a family, a kingdom, a war, and at last the silence that has been waiting behind all three.
Dissonance opens the first of those movements in a small frontier town and the roads that lead out of it. The books that follow widen the music — a school built where a monastery once stood, a second kingdom beyond a wall nobody should have crossed, a crusade answered at the threshold of a throne that may not be allowed to stay occupied. The architecture is inherited from the oldest stories about families and countries. The register is quieter than most of them, and it does not look away.
THE AUTHOR
J.M. Corvinus
J.M. Corvinus is a debut author and a pretty ordinary guy who started writing the way a lot of people would — because something had to be done with the grief.
Dissonance began as an attempt to hold on to his mother and the stories he has been telling himself since he was small. The characters in the Maren kitchen, the songs the boys carry, the town that tolerates a family it does not quite allow — all of it is, in its own careful way, a way of keeping her in the room. The Silence Between is, more than anything else, a thank-you letter: for the life she built, the patience she spent, and the quiet she taught him how to listen for. It is the book he wanted to write his mom so she could read it forever.
Dissonance — Book One of The Silence Between — arrives May 15, 2026. Follow @jmcorvinus on Threads or Instagram for release updates and reading notes.
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