Pauper's WeatherGlass

The flower closes before the rain.

Robyn came home with a story she can never tell, and marbles she should not have. She has a degree now, a life, a best friend who asks no questions. It has almost been enough.

Then, in the crowd at her graduation, she sees a man who cannot possibly be there.

The Cage wants her back, and this time it will not take a schoolgirl. It takes a Baroness with borrowed papers, a smuggler's ship with a wrong name, a resistance that trades in the one currency that matters, and a man called Lord London who keeps other people's treasures because they are safer with him.

She will lie her way to the top of a world to finish what the missing boys began. She will find someone worth staying for. And she will learn what it costs to hold on to what you win.

And under everything, faint as a fridge in another room, there is a sound she has learned not to hear. One note. Steady. Counting.

Pauper's Weatherglass is the second book of Where Giants Sleep. The story begins in Beyond the Pale.