The Tax of Years

Wulfric Hewer traded a decade of his life to save his dying daughter — and now he looks sixty at forty, with only three years left in his bones. When he learns the cure was a fraud and Edda's illness has returned, the only hope lies locked inside the imperial vaults: a relic that could undo the empire's cruel system of stealing years from the poor to feed the rich. But stealing it demands a price that may cost him everything he has left, including his soul.