The Widow's Thread

Merryn Rusk was once the finest ear in Ambry, the raft-city that drifts forever inside the eye of a living storm. One misread heartbeat in a hull drowned nine people and cost her everything. Now, patching bilge-rafts on the outer ring, she hears a second pulse beneath the storm's slow one — small, fast, frightened — and learns that an iron navy has caged the storm's child. Ambry's rulers call the coming landfall a blessing. Merryn knows what it will cost.