The Grafted Name

Rose Cobbett cuts names into stone for a living, and the guild oath she keeps says she must never cut a lie. So when the lady of Sparrowgate Hall asks her to add an eldest son to a family tomb Rose carved herself — a tomb with no eldest son — she refuses. But the charming stranger in mourning-grey already remembers being born there, and every paper in the county is quietly rearranging itself to agree with him. One boy is thinning out of the world. In five weeks, a whole shire follows.