The Weight of the Bearer

Every debt has a far shore.For two hundred years the shop on Vellum Lane has taken the grief of Harrow Vale and moved it somewhere else. Marlow Pell, the only keeper who cannot forget what she has carried, has kept the bargain, until the town begins to grieve losses that never happened, and a young man arrives holding a dread that was never his.The burdens are coming home. To find out why, Marlow must leave her ledger for the first time and cross an interior sea to the far shore where two centuries of sorrow have been waiting, and learn what has been holding it, and what it will cost to finally set it down.Luminous and melancholy, The Weight of the Bearer opens the Pell & Niece world outward into a wider, older country of debts and the strangers who pay them.Book Three of the Pell & Niece series.