The Glass Sovereign

Rain hammers the cobblestones of Alabaster Hollow when Renata Corwin steps off the coach and into a mystery that has already begun to bleed. A stranger has washed ashore clutching a glass relic tied to a legend the cliffside town has long refused to speak of , the Glass Sovereign, a ruler of glass and shadow whose return was never supposed to be more than a story told to frighten children. Within hours, the stranger is dead, and Renata finds herself bound to a truth no one in the hollow wants surfaced. As she digs into the relic's origins, she is shadowed by the Watcher, a silent figure who seems to know her next move before she makes it, and quietly opposed by Dorian Fenwick, whose charm conceals loyalties she cannot yet map. Bram Quigley offers reluctant help, Petra Halloway trades secrets for safety, and Edgar Mulligan guards the kind of silence that costs lives. Somewhere beyond the harbor, an unknown sister waits, Aldous Crane circles with old debts, and the Glass King , real or myth , stirs beneath the brine. With Silas March closing in and Isolde Vane warning her away, Renata must choose whether to chase the relic to its source or surrender the hollow to those who would rather it stay buried.