Bones and Bells

In the Bell Court, every promise rings — and Vesper has built a career on un-ringing them. She is the best forger of silence the family trade has, an orphan who sells quiet to men who need their vows to disappear. When the Kuznetsova bratva buys her service at docket, they bind her to Taras Kuznetsov, whose voice makes any sentence true. He despises forgers. He needs one. Together they peel back a docket that someone has been quieting for twenty years — a murder, a bride, and a purchase record that carries Vesper's own seal. Because she has sold silences she cannot remember selling. Because her own name was sold once, and she was too small to stop it. Taras will not un-ring his wife. The family will. Whatever rings back from the under-tower, only one of them can survive to hear it.