Tower of Silver: A Twisted Rapunzel Retelling

Her hair held the spell. His hunger held the key.

To keep her family breathing, a young woman accepts a bargain sealed in silver thread, and the price locks her high above the world.

Elowen Vale lives in a tower no map admits exists. The walls drink moonlight. The windows never open. Her captor, the Witch of the Briars, calls it protection. Elowen calls it a cage.

Her hair is the lock.

Every season, the Witch braids new runes into Elowen’s length, feeding a spell older than the kingdom below. Elowen endures, counts nights, and plans for escape. Then a man climbs her tower, his hands built for war, his eyes built for ruin.

He is no shining prince.

Kael wears a crown he never wanted and a curse he cannot outrun. The court calls him King. The curse calls him a beast. He needs the tower’s spell to survive the next full moon, and he will trade safety, gold, and silence for one thing.

Elowen.

One hidden season in the tower.
One vow tied to living silver.
One secret that turns her beauty into a weapon.

Elowen swears she will use him, take what she needs, then burn the spell out of her hair and vanish. Kael swears he will break the curse without breaking her. The tower has rules. The braids listen. The Witch watches through mirrors and ivy, waiting for Elowen to choose the wrong desire.

When the kingdom’s rot reaches the tower door, and the Witch demands a final sacrifice, Elowen must decide what she will become: the locked girl in the sky, the woman who claims the key, the crown, and the monster who climbed for her.

Tower of Silver is a dark romantasy retelling of Rapunzel with silver vows, gothic heat, and a tower that never lets go.