Hard Mercy

di Jess Elliott (Autore)

Jess Elliott, 2025

In a city where doors learn manners and laws are cut into stone, Kessa Larkspur's magic isn't spectacle—it's policy. As the Hill's newest keeper, she teaches gates to wait for please, hospital lintels to open only for soap and steady hands, and river seams to carry the broken home but never let power in. The work is simple, stubborn, and it saves lives. Then the crown arrives with collars that promise "efficiency," a charter that would register every breath, and a machine built to make the city's memory give up names. Kessa and Aren—the soldier whose iron won't climb his throat anymore—push back with the only enchantment that holds: ask, stop, ask again. They turn tools into furniture, tricks into habits, and fashion into chalk that must earn its ink. As fires test the alarm clauses, tides demand a fourth voice, and grief tries to bargain, the city learns a harder kind of mercy—the kind that refuses shortcuts. When a final edict threatens to own the very people who keep the doors honest, Kessa must choose whether to break the instruments that want her obedience—or teach them to carry soup.

• Autore: Jess Elliott
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Jess Elliott
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232278571