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Breaking a Shadow [Beta Version Complete]
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Status: Beta chapters complete, editing in progress. Early chapters may have simplified prose or superficial psychological reasoning until I get to them. Thank you for your patience. Ch 1 - 4 edited, Ch 5 in progress.
Elena is not a bride. She is a debt paid in flesh. Delivered to the Volkov estate as a living insult, she enters her new “marriage” expecting only one thing: to be ignored.
But the mansion is not indifferent. Behind its locked doors and polished halls, alliances shift like shadows. Every resident is playing a game Elena was never meant to understand let alone survive.
Yet her silence makes her dangerous in ways none of them anticipate. What begins as endurance becomes the reclamation of a stolen voice—and when the final move lands, the entire board will look nothing like anyone expected.
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Tip: Read it as a survivor’s journey, and you’ll watch a girl the world tried to erase become impossible to overlook. Read it as a mystery, and you’ll uncover a puzzle woven through every chapter. The main volumes drop the clues the extras expose the pattern—you may choose to read in whatever order makes sense to you.
Breaking a Shadow is published on Royal Road for free. If you find it anywhere else, it is an unauthorized copy.© 2025-2026 Feiya Phia
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Wall of Honor + Announcements
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Author's Note (Updated 8/28/26)
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Ch 1: The Quietest Animal (EDITED)
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Ch 2: Leave No Trace (EDITED)
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Ch 3: The First Theft (EDITED)
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Ch 4: A Reason to Stay (EDITED)
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Ch 5: The Scent of Weakness
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Ch 6: Polished for Play
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Ch 7: An Object on Display
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Ch 8: A Crack in the Mask
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Ch 9: Not a Volkov
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Ch 10: An Abandoned Puppet
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Ch 11: Jumping Into the Trench
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Ch 12: Of Blood and Bandages
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Ch 13: The Incriminating Ledger
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Ch 14: A Pressure Chamber
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Ch 15: A Vigil for the Wolf
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Ch 16: A Breech of Protocol
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Ch 17: The Fatal Descent
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Ch 18: The Keeper of Silence
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Ch 19: The Sum of Neglect
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Ch 20: Walk With Me
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Ch 21: The Weight of His Attention
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Ch 22: The Longest Day
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Ch 23: A Place Beside Him
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Ch 24: Just for Tonight
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Ch 25: The Devil’s Table
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Ch 26: Ghosts in Gilded Frames
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Ch 27: The Glass Coffin
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Ch 28: The Seagull's Legacy
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Ch 29: A Beautiful World
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Ch 30: An Ugly Conspiracy
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Ch 31: A Mark of Her Own
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Ch 32: The First Flight
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Ch 33: This is Who I Am
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Ch 34: Feared or Loved
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Ch 35: Rumors and Gunfire
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Ch 36: A Worthy Opponent
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Ch 37: Inheritance of Steel
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Ch 38: The First Concession
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Ch 39: Everyone Has a Price
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Ch 40: The Knight’s Lesson
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Ch 41: Held Between Storms
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Ch 42: A Game of Loyalty
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Ch 43: The Only Witness
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Ch 44: The Hunt Begins
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Ch 45: Checkmate
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Ch 46: The Hidden Blade
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Ch 47: Exploit the Weakness
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Ch 48: Collateral Blood
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Ch 49: The Eve of Breaking
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Ch 50: Rising from the Depths
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Ch 51: Trust Is a Weapon
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Ch 52: Closing the Net
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Ch 53: The Skeleton Mill
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Ch 54: The Missing Piece
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Ch 54: The Cost of Instinct
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Ch 55: The Missing Piece
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Ch 56: Tending What Remains
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Ch 57: The Living Must Go On
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Ch 58: Take Me There
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Ch 59: This Is My Vow
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Ch 60: Toward the Light Ahead
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Extras Ch 1: Dante - A Weapon in the Making
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Extras Ch 2: Dante - A Kingdom Denied
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Extras Ch 3: Anna - The Devotion of a Ghost
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Extras Ch 4: Valentina - Better Than the Streets
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Extras Ch 5: Valentina - A Queen Does Not Kneel
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Extras Ch 6: Valentina - The Board Takes Shape
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Extras Ch 7: Valentina - Terms of Survival
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Extras Ch 8: Valentina - A Blade Forged in Silence
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Extras Ch 9: Valentina - A Poisonous Love
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Extras Ch 10: Valentina - A Fever Dream
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Extras Ch 11: Marco - A Fool Among Wolves
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Extras Ch 12: Kazimir - A Throne of Glass
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Extras Ch 13: Kazimir - The Monster in the Mirror
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Extras Ch 14: Kazimir - She’s Mine to Protect
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Extras Ch 15: Kazimir - The Endgame Begins
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Extras Ch 16: Kazimir - A Better Man
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