A Covenant of Teeth

The Church burned the wrong man - and woke the oldest grief in the world.For nine hundred years the Covenant of Teeth has held: the deathless keep to their deep places, the living pay the night-tithe, and the Church that brokered the peace grows fat on a fear it no longer needs.Then the Church burns a heretic physician in a public square - and learns, too late, that he was the one warm thing keeping the oldest and coldest of the deathless from her grief.Now the Pale Sovereign has loosed the dark across the marches, and the only people standing in its path are the ones the Church most wants dead: a disgraced monster-hunter who has buried every comrade he ever fought beside; a hunted binder who can speak the cold itself into chains, at a terrible price; and the burned man's daughter - half-warm, half-deathless, raised to believe she belongs nowhere on either side.To end a war the Church engineered, they will have to do the one thing nine centuries of cruelty insisted was impossible.They will have to face the dark together.A Covenant of Teeth begins The Deathless - a gothic dark-fantasy saga of grief, found family, and the long cost of mercy.

Pagina's: 794, Paperback, Independently published