A Widow Made of Salt: The Hollow Saints, #1

The dead cannot lie.

At least, that is what Ilyra Vale has been taught.

In the ancient coastal city of Veyra, Mourners are trained to extract the final memories of the dead. With a kiss, Ilyra can witness a victim's last moments, uncover hidden crimes, and hear the secrets people thought they had taken to the grave.

Then she is summoned to the body of Eveline Voss.

Eveline's final memory shows her being murdered by her own wife: Seraphine Voss, the cold, dangerously intelligent heiress to one of Veyra's most powerful families.

There is only one problem.

Seraphine insists Eveline died three months ago.

As Ilyra is drawn into a conspiracy involving stolen memories, resurrected bodies, forgotten gods, and a past someone erased from her own mind, she becomes dangerously fascinated by the woman she is supposed to suspect.

Because if the dead can be made to remember things that never happened, nothing in Veyra can be trusted.

Not justice.

Not history.

And certainly not love.

A Widow Made of Salt is a dark sapphic gothic fantasy of obsession, murder, forbidden memory, morally complicated women, and a love story that should never have survived the grave.