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Trust the man who already broke it once
Lyra Bien escaped Stonegate alive, but only because Roark Ashwood made a choice that cost him everything. By revealing his true identity to save her, the Sentry of Stonegate destroyed years of careful deception and turned everyone who trusted him into an enemy overnight. Lyra owes him her life. She is not sure she owes him anything else.
Back in the Realms of Stìgandr, the fallout spreads fast. The Dravens, the clan Roark was born into and kept hidden, are now visible to every hostile faction at court. The crown's corruption has not softened. Lyra's rare melder magic makes her a target from multiple directions, and getting through what comes next requires exactly the kind of alliance she most wants to refuse.
Roark is fighting on two fronts: the external enemies who want the power his bloodline carries, and Lyra's trust, which he has to rebuild in the middle of a war. LJ Andrews closes the Broken Souls and Bones duology with the same structure that made the first book work, two people on opposite sides of a broken trust, building something in the rubble before time runs out.
Will Thorne and Lindsey Dorcus split the dual narration between Roark and Lyra, and at 15 hours and 11 minutes, the pacing is tight for a fantasy romance of this scope. The betrayal that closed Book 1 has real weight here, which means the slow-burn reconciliation has to earn every inch of ground it covers.
LJ Andrews structures the second half of the Broken Souls and Bones duology around a deceptively precise problem: Lyra knows exactly what Roark is capable of, and that knowledge is what makes him hardest to trust. The tension holds through the court scenes and the external conflicts without resolving before the book is ready, which is the hardest structural discipline to maintain in a two-book arc.
The Draven politics introduced in this volume add a layer that Book 1 only suggested. Roark's double identity is no longer a secret, and the fallout runs through several relationships at once: his family, his remaining allies at Stonegate, Lyra, and the court figures who built their positions around his false identity. The battle sequences in the second half are well-paced, and Andrews does not let the romance overwhelm the plot stakes.
Thorne's performance as Roark is the standout. The character demands a specific kind of controlled restraint across hundreds of pages of earned mistrust, and Thorne navigates it without making Roark seem cold or passive. Dorcus handles Lyra's more volatile emotional arc with equal precision. A strong finish to a duology that deserved one.
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Heir of Twisted Lies is the second and final book in LJ Andrews's Broken Souls and Bones duology, released on March 24, 2026 by Penguin Random House Audio. The audiobook runs 15 hours and 11 minutes, with Will Thorne and Lindsey Dorcus each narrating one of the two main perspectives.
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