Stacy Ryan

Magic is forbidden. Witches are gone. Until Mara awakens the lines beneath the city. When the Wardens drag her into the sanctum-a brutal trial meant to break her-Mara discovers a power older than the Chancellor's laws and stronger than the iron choking Ashgrave. The lines want her. The city fears her. And witchcraft is rising again. A dark, atmospheric fantasy about a girl who refuses to break and a world that can't silence magic forever.