In the shadow of a sunless world I have let loose a power I did not think I possessed. But all power comes with a price, and if it doesn't cost me my life, it might cost me hers.Her Whisper so Soft and Bitter is a sapphic dark fantasy romance by Elsie Hawthorne featuring a queernormative world, a nightmare love interest, and an unassuming scribe fighting for her life—and heart. Book 2 of the Heart of the Library Duet part of a the series, a Curse of Fallen Stars.