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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.
Asher carries fire he never asked for, and a temper the kingdom is glad to find a use for. Cawsley carries quiet, an ear for the music buried inside silence, and a gentleness that unsettles people more than any flame. One brother learns what the road makes of anger. The other learns what a sanctuary keeps in its cellars.
In the capital, a young Sovereign builds a fragile peace out of blood and ledgers. In the town they left behind, their father begins to hear a patient voice that sounds too much like his own. And the war that was willing to wait draws its lines closer to the only door that ever called them sons.
The town always knew what the boys were for. Their family spent years insisting otherwise. The war is coming to settle which of them was right, and what believing it will cost.
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Artwork by J.M. Corvinus.
Into the Silence Between
Book One
Dissonance
Amazon
Book Two
Reverie
Aug 1, 2026
Book Four
Revenance
Coming soon
Book Five
Prisma
Coming soon
Reverie
August 1, 2026
The Locke School was built as a promise: a place where dangerous children could become more than the weapons the world expected them to be.
For one amber year, it almost works.
Sable studies the stars and finds something looking back. Linnea, too bright and too strange for the rooms that love her, begins hearing a silence that feels almost like home. Corrin leaves for the mountains to learn how to fight without becoming the monster in his blood. And beneath the warmth of classrooms, kitchens, music rooms, tournaments, and first love, the kingdom is quietly running out of time.
Then an impossible door is found in the foothills.
The mission is simple: enter the ancient dungeon, find the source of the monsters bleeding into the realm, and come back alive.
But the dark beneath the mountain is not a cave. It is not a ruin. It is a test older than any kingdom, built from grief, memory, and a love no human body was meant to survive.
As teachers and students descend together, the school’s last golden season fractures into something stranger and far more dangerous. The dead are waiting. The monsters are listening. And the door at the bottom has been open, in one way or another, all along.
For readers who like dark academy fantasy, emotionally devastating found family, cosmic horror, slow-burn romance, and characters who love each other fiercely enough to break the world trying to save it.
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THE AUTHOR
J.M. Corvinus
J.M. Corvinus is a debut author who started writing the way a lot of people would — because something had to be done with 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 Locke 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 to immortalize her.
Dissonance — Book One of The Silence Between — is available now. Follow @jmcorvinus on Threads or Instagram for news and reading notes.
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