A Whisper of the Slain

Brother Benedict heard the dead man scream. In the sealed mountain sanctuary of Highcairn Reach, the God-Speaker lies poisoned while forty electors prepare to crown his successor—and the murderer walks among them. Benedict, a lowly Listener trained to hear the final impressions of the dead, holds the only proof of foul play, but the powerful want him silent. With nine days until the gates unseal and a tyrant poised to seize the throne, Benedict must expose a conspiracy that reaches higher than anyone suspects, or watch his order—and his realm—be destroyed.