The Salt Ledger of Marrowmere
In the drowned city of Marrowmere, debts are paid in memories, and the tide-clerks keep ledgers written in brine. Ysolde Verrick, a disgraced auditor with a missing decade of her own life, is hired to settle the account of a dying magistrate. But the numbers refuse to balance: someone has been forging losses, selling strangers' griefs to the wealthy for flavor. As the harbor bells toll the quarter-tide, Ysolde must decide whether to expose the fraud, or to learn what she hers…
Free AI-generated tale · Fantasy · EN
