The False Sky

Book One of The Broken Vault

von Elven King

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The world is a sealed vault. The sky is its lid. And the woman who measured it is going to be erased for knowing.

Iane Coriol surveys coastlines for an empire that prices its citizens by the year. She is careful, lawful, and very good at her work - which is exactly what damns her. On a dead northern shore she measures a coast that curves back on itself, a sea that does not end but *encloses*, and understands the truth the gods have spent ten thousand years burying: the world is a cell, and someone built it.

The truth is heresy. The sentence is erasure - not death, but unmaking, soul and name struck from the only book that says you ever existed.

To live, Iane runs to the drowned underworld beneath the city and carves her first forbidden sigil into her own bone. Magic here is paid in body, and it is never given back. To reach the one thing that could prove her right - a fragment of a god-name, a *key* to the lid of the world - she'll need a crew: a dying thief who spends his dead sister's bones to work his craft, a feral orphan being eaten alive by the trade that's keeping it fed, and a fixer the system can squeeze. The job will cost blood, bone, and people she's only just learned to love.

And the inquisitor hunting her - a man whose faith is the kindest and most terrible thing about him - is starting to suspect she's right.

But the deepest truth is the one no one survives knowing: the lock that cages the world is also the only thing holding back what waits beneath it. To free everyone may be to doom them all.