Three cities. One broken river. Nineteen years of unfinished history.
Brynn Mayfirst has spent her life on the wrong side of the river from the Crown that still considers her bloodline dangerous. She knows the laws, the old stories, and exactly how much New Caoineadh prefers its problems out of sight.
Prince Gavin MacSachiel was raised inside that polished world. He has a kingdom to serve, a family legacy he does not entirely trust, and a forbidden gift he has spent years pretending does not exist.
They were tied together by other people long before either of them had a choice.
Then the southern wall begins to fail.
The dead beyond it are no longer wandering. They are listening. Old magic starts answering Brynn’s blood. Gavin’s hands begin healing things they should not be able to heal. Buried histories surface, the river cities turn on one another, and something that has waited nineteen years begins moving north.
Brynn and Gavin may be the only people who can stop what is coming.
First, they have to survive what their kingdom has made of them.
Blood remembers what kingdoms forget.