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“There’s no need to hide here,” Elsie says, face framed in white curls, the warm light from the candle deepening the rouge in the hollows of her cheeks. Outside, it’s raining sheets and every so often a vein of lightning comes streaking across the sky, so bright that it flashes through the slits in the manor’s thick curtains. “As you saw, there’s only one way in and one way out of town and it isn’t much of a way these days.”
“But you have a merchant,” Marian says, her voice still round from the broken molar at the back of her mouth, “he greeted me across the path.”
“Balor,” Elsie’s eyes soften around his name, “I wouldn’t worry about Balor. He is, I think, running from demons of his own.”-or-
A ranger owes a great debt to the Merchant’s Guild. A reformed thief seeks redemption from a life of subterfuge and violence. They meet in a lush town along the seaside, marred with the scars of disaster. Here, in the quiet, it’s easy to fall in love. But will their pasts stay buried or follow them through the fields?