
This is a sharp, dark, and fast mystery inside a lived-in fantasy world. You’ll walk the marble halls of a powerful Palazzo, descend into crypts beneath a holy Shrine, and stalk alleys where unfavored citizens vanish. At the center are two people who should not—cannot—trust each other: Damian, an unfavored ex-soldier burdened by grief and guilt, and Roz, a disciple forged by loss and rage. As bodies appear marked by a rare northern poison and stripped of their eyes, politics and faith collide with class anger and rebellion. The deeper they go, the more the old stories of the saints turn from comfort into threat. It’s a love story that refuses to be soft, a murder hunt that keeps changing shape, and a tale about what happens when faith and power stop matching people’s lives.