Showing results for "grief" in Dark Fantasy

Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city—the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse. At once touching and shattering, Celehar's witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses. The love of his friends will lead him out again.

Everyone has a death. Hers has a name: Moira. When Amber Graves buries her father, she thinks the worst is over. The next night, she discovers she’s wrong. Her inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s his magic. And it comes bound to her own death: a porcelain-masked woman named Moira, who watches her from mirrors and shadows, waiting for the moment Amber’s heartbeat stops. As Amber struggles to balance work, love, and the dark art of necromancy, she learns the truth behind her father’s legacy—and the terrible cost of keeping it. What do you do when your guardian angel is the angel of death?

Ivy tends wounds others hide—until bodies begin to refuse her remedies and infants appear at hedgerows with sigils pressed into their skin. As lesion-blooms and missing memories spread, Ivy’s healing becomes entangled with bargains struck by midwives and town elders generations ago. To save the children and stop the slow unmaking of family lines, she must risk the memory of who she is and what she has loved. Thorn & Grief is a sensory, slow-burn supernatural thriller about what mothers pay, what healers carry, and how sorrow can take root.