Dead men tell no tales
When Corporal Kaylin Neya is assigned front desk dutyтАФa task hated by every HawkтАФthe only thing she can look forward to besides an endless stream of complaints is visits from a dotty old woman. She always brings baked goods along with information passed on by her friendsтАжwho happen to be ghosts no one else can see. But then the old womanтАЩs invisible friends have news about Severn Handred: his unusual weapon has caught their attention. Concerned, Kaylin accompanies the woman home because she has a few questions to ask these so-called ghosts.
Sadly, Kaylin can also see them. And she can see other spirits in the womanтАЩs house as wellтАФfour children whoтАЩve been trapped there for decades. When Kaylin looks into the deaths in the records at the Halls of Law, something doesnтАЩt add up. Factor in a building that isnтАЩt supposed to exist, and nothing makes sense. But Kaylin is a Hawk, and sheтАЩs determined to free the trapped ghosts of the children, even if sheтАЩs suddenly landed in the middle of the bad kind of Barrani history. Someone doesnтАЩt want the past to be uncovered, and theyтАЩre perfectly willing to destroy Kaylin if it preserves the secrets of the deadтАж
тАЬA satisfying combination of contemporary-feeling secondary world, city-based fantasy, and go-big-or-go-home epic.тАЭ тАФTor.com on the Chronicles of Elantra series
Sciencefiction en fantasy