The Glassbinder's Inheritance

On a fog-veiled Tuesday, Mirelle Thorncleft notices a crack in her mother's workshop window, a fracture that shimmers with impossible light and bleeds through from a place no one in Thornhallow dares name. The Glassreach is stirring, and something ancient beneath it is waking. Across the salt-burned marshes, cloaked travelers bring fragmented warnings. A silver-eyed woman walks through Mirelle's visions, whispering of seven bearers and a price not yet paid. Sister Pellamar of the Tidal Lens offers forbidden knowledge, but every binding her order ever taught demands a soul in exchange. When newborn Hollowed begin emerging from the marsh mist and the faceless-helmed leader marshals his host at Ophir Bend's gates, Mirelle learns the truth her mother Lioren buried before her hands grew stiff: the glassbinder's art is not craft, but consecration, and the inheritance was never meant for her sister Seren at all. Hunted by Hollowed agents who move like shard-voices through stone echoes, Mirelle flees with only a fading map and the grudging aid of Corvin Ashvale, a man who knows too much about mirror-future versions of her that should not exist. To save Seren from becoming the next bound sacrifice and prevent the Hollow King from completing his ritual at the obelisk, Mirelle must master the craft that unmade her mother's hands, and accept that some inheritances claim the heir who dares to lift them.