When the sky turned bronze and the old gods fell silent, nobody expected salvation to come from a fishmonger’s daughter. Seventeen-year-old Thessaly Corrow had spent her entire life gutting mackerel in the lower districts of Kandros, her hands perpetually stinking of brine and her dreams extending no further than the harbor walls. But on the morning the Magisters came to collect their blood tithe, everything changed. A mark appeared on her palm, burning like a fresh brand, and suddenly she could hear the whispers of the dying world itself. Now, hunted by the very regime that murdered her brother, Thessaly must join forces with an exiled scholar, a disgraced soldier, and a thief with secrets darker than the void between stars. Their mission is impossible: steal the Heart of Dominion from the Alabaster Citadel and restore balance to a world tearing itself apart. But rebellion has a price, and some debts can only be paid in blood.
