Unbound

Sabine Dacre weaves modest, legal enchantments in the walled city of Thornmark, and she has spent ten years being careful—ever since the High Conclave executed her mother for loosening a binding. A summons to the Conclave's fortress ends that careful life. In a sealed cell, a chained soldier wears a compulsion cloth fused to his skin, and threaded through it, half dissolved, is her mother's secret work. Freeing him will take months of skin against skin, and every night could be their last.