The Keeper's Share

Justine Lemaire mends lace on the poorest quay in Anvezza, and her hands can hear the dead. Every thread of hourlace is spun from surrendered years, and every year hums with the voice of the donor who gave it. When one careless reading brings her to the attention of the woman who has fed the city's Weir for three centuries, Justine is bought, courted, and taught — until she learns whose voice waits in the oldest bolts, and what a keeper truly keeps.