A Tide of Salt and Severance

In the fog-choked city of Caelmoor, magic is drawn from grief and salt water - and the dead remember everything.

Nerys Calloran is the finest saltreader in the city and the one the Coroners' Guild likes least: low-born, sharp-tongued, and missing four years of her own childhood she has never been able to explain. Her work is grim and holy. She touches the last water that met a dying body and sees the last moment held there. At least the dead tell the truth.

So when she reads a drowned noblewo...