The Witch Who Fed The Hunger

Marrow has no proof she ever loved a god. The ledger fused to her ribs says she did – says she chose him again and again, burning memories to free him from seven hundred years of chains. But she can't feel any of it. She can only follow the pattern her past self left behind.

Now imprisoned in the Capital Temple and branded a contamination vector, Marrow discovers the institution built on "merciful forgetting" has been feeding two cosmic hungers for centuries – one that devours every ending, one that makes suffering refuse to stop. The cleansed aren't healed. They're hollowed into vessels for something worse.

When the Temple moves to seal away every stolen memory forever, Marrow faces an impossible trade: feed the hunger every word she ever wrote about loving Ruin – every documented choice, every recorded devotion – and buy the God of Endings a few minutes of coherence. Minutes to prove that mercy doesn't require cruelty. Minutes that will cost her sister the ability to ever refuse a prayer again.

The proof of love can be consumed. But the choosing can't.

Book 2 of the Witches & Gods series. For readers of Katherine Arden's Winternight Trilogy and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver who believe the most dangerous magic is the kind that asks you to forget.