Fragile as Sin

In the White City of Ostraca, perfection is the law. To crack is to sin.

Maren Vesper is an anomaly. In a city where citizens are born of cold, hard porcelain, she is "Unfired"-a woman of raw, soft clay. Vulnerable to the slightest touch, she survives in the shadows as an illegal Gilder, using forbidden molten gold to repair the cracks of the desperate before the city recycles them.

Cyprian Gaunt is the Kiln Warden. He is the only living soul forged from Obsidian Stoneware-unbreakable, terrif...