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
On a midwinter morning, Sera Maren finds two freezing fledglings in an apple crate at the edge of town.
They mimic a dead woman’s plea. They shift into boys. They burn too hot, hear music in silence, and grow up loved in a house the town already hates.
Kael and Sera name them Asher and Cawsley. For a while, that is enough.
Then Asher’s fire saves his brother and marks the family as dangerous. Cawsley is sent away to a monastery that promises safety. Asher takes to the road, carrying an anger the kingdom keeps giving a use.
Years pass. The brothers grow in different directions, shaped by teachers, bargains, grief, and the quiet violence of people who know exactly what a dangerous child is for.
In the capital, a young Sovereign builds order from blood and ledgers. In Briden, Kael hears a patient voice inside his own mind. And as war moves closer to the Maren door, the family that once proved monsters could be loved must survive a world determined to prove monsters can only be used.
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 Silence Between · Book Two
Reverie
The Maren 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. Aurel, 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 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 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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