The Penumbra

Solenne has one rule: Don't touch anything.

She reads the dead for a living. Their final moments, their pain, the secrets they carried to the grave - all of it passes through her hands and into her, leaving something behind that never quite goes away. She keeps her gloves on and her distance carefully maintained in a city celebrating a war victory she knows the true cost of.

When a routine reading reveals a murder buried beneath the Institution's carefully constructed exterior, Solenne finds herself drawn into something far older and darker than the war that scarred her. A secret the Institution has been keeping since before she was born - and one she has unknowingly been feeding her entire life.

With new relationships, worlds she has never experienced, and a crumbling facade inching her closer to the one man she should avoid - Solenne begins to wonder if the truth behind her past was never meant to stay buried.

Some doors open from both sides.