The River Lantern

Every autumn, Greybridge pays its toll to the spirit coiled beneath the old stone crossing—but this year, the price is Tamsin's brother. Refusing to let the Guild claim him, the young warden plunges into her father's forbidden research, tracing half-burned notes and forbidden river glyphs to the source of a centuries-old pact. To rewrite it, she must descend to the water's edge and face something ancient that remembers every bargain ever broken.