Hunter Eska Hraundottir arrives at a frontier town to investigate a death no one can explain. The body is unmarked. The witnesses cannot remember the evening. The repairman who fixes everyone's small things is the only one in town who lies about nothing, and the only one she cannot read.
Across one autumn at the edge of the Compact of Hael, four people pulled by something they have not yet named begin to understand the world is not the world they thought it was. Memory has a price. Magic has a name. And someone is teaching it again, on purpose, for the first time in living memory.
The first volume of THE LAST TO REMEMBER: an epic literary fantasy of memory, cost, and the long arithmetic of who we choose to be. Multi-POV ensemble, hard magic system, slow-burn civilizational stakes. For readers of Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, and N. K. Jemisin.
