A Handful of Souls: 1 (The Split Sea Novels)

Mud gold and lies. Thats all you get in Branera. Youll find no better expert on these things than Lily Kale-Tollworth. Yet she has no clue of the events already in motion around her.Weeks ago a murderer with a bleeding grin was released from the Mountain Head. Lily doesnt know this pale-skinned giant has been writing to her. She doesnt even know hes coming to find her. But as her father Husker Tollworth feels like its his right.Days ago a tax patrol was slaughtered. Lily doesnt know her brothers corpse was pulled from a ditch stolen by a man who can raise the dead. Lark Kale-Tollworth will follow this bizarre scholar to the Southlands. He will forget how many times hes died.Hours ago an informant showed Lilys stepfather an incriminating note. Branera has taxed its villages too hard. An uprising is massing in the Northlands - and they have a noose with Josef Kales name on it.At this very moment Josef is frantically packing their coach while Lily is drinking whisky in a brothel. Shes met the arrogant idiot who will be their guide south. She doesnt know he has a hollow soul filled with thousands of spirits. She doesnt know his mouth is filled with as many lies.But if there are three things Lilys good at its mud gold and lies.