The Ninth Tide

The Hook

In the fishing town of Sallow Cove, three days before the Ninth Tide, the sea gives up Mara Finch — soaked, gray-lipped, seaweed in her hair, walking dead up the tideline and pointing at the crowd. The trouble is Mara Finch is standing right there in the crowd too, very much alive, screaming louder than anyone. The drowned Mara says only one thing before the Choir of the Undertow drags her off to be tested: 'You let me drown. It hasn't happened yet. But you let me.' The Crown's tax wardens want her seized as unclaimed property. The Church wants her exorcised as heresy. And somewhere in a locked cellar, a man named Cadmus Rell is counting silver he was never supposed to spend.

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