Whispering Tower

Liara has taken the medicine every morning and every night for as long as she can remember. When an arranged marriage sends her to the tower of the King's Royal Wizard, the medicine is lost at sea, and the illness that has defined her life begins, inexplicably, to lift.In the tower, something whispers through the stone. Her husband is charming and not quite what he appears. The walls hold secrets she has been told not to look for, and a prisoner she has been told does not exist. The new medicine she is given tastes different. Sweeter. It makes the questions go away.Liara stops taking it.What she finds will cost her everything. What she becomes will be something no one anticipated, least of all the man who thought he owned her. Dark romantasy featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, morally grey characters, forbidden attraction, found family, and a heroine who refuses to stay powerless. The Whispering Tower is the first book in the series. CW: violence, manipulation, imprisonment, non-consensual drugging, pregnancy trauma, body horror K. Oliver is a New Zealand author and Webtoon creator whose work sits at the intersection of dark fantasy, romance, and gothic storytelling. Her debut novel, The Whispering Tower, is the first book in a planned series exploring what it means to reclaim power in a world built to prevent it.She is the creator of The Wolfman of Wulvershire, a complete adult fantasy mystery romance published on Webtoon, where it accumulated over 350,000 subscribers and 16.9 million views across 90 episodes before its completion in 2022.Oliver's stories are character-driven and tonally balanced, finding light and hope without flinching from darkness or trauma. Her work centres women navigating societies that were not designed for them, and features LGBTQ+ relationships and perspectives as a matter of course rather than exception. She is drawn to gothic elements, morally complex characters, and the kind of found family that forms when the world has given people no better option.She lives in New Zealand with two rabbits and two cats.