The Echoing Cost

<p><strong>Book 2: The Echoing Cost</strong></p><p>When every act of healing steals a piece of the healer compassion itself becomes a battlefield.<br>Kaelen scarred by the Ash-Marks of a thousand borrowed pains and Garret haunted by the hollow silence left by the Weavers must cross deserts marshes and the haunted ruins of the First Folk in search of a truth that could mend-or finally shatter-the Heartstone. But every choice carries an echoing cost: a child saved for a goat lost a song of grief silenced for a lifetime of obedience a love remembered for a soul erased.<br>In <em>The Echoing Cost</em> the fragile beauty of feeling is tested against the terrible allure of silence and the fate of empathy itself hangs in the balance.</p>