Lila Rowan runs Needle & Nine, a basement tattoo shop with salt lines, petty wards, and a basil plant that approves of good decisions. When a cursed Nightglass coin starts buying nouns out of people's lives, and the palace moves to claim the Bell of Hollow Mercy to brand the city "Mercy District, " Lila is pulled into a war between glamour and bureaucracy. With iron-quiet Kade Arlen, clerical avenger Ellery Fiske, Hex inspector M.
Hart, and rope-scarred ringer Ruth Calder, Lila learns to fight magic with paperwork, primes, and refusal-with thanks.
Lila Rowan runs Needle & Nine, a basement tattoo shop with salt lines, petty wards, and a basil plant that approves of good decisions. When a cursed Nightglass coin starts buying nouns out of people's lives, and the palace moves to claim the Bell of Hollow Mercy to brand the city "Mercy District, " Lila is pulled into a war between glamour and bureaucracy. With iron-quiet Kade Arlen, clerical avenger Ellery Fiske, Hex inspector M.
Hart, and rope-scarred ringer Ruth Calder, Lila learns to fight magic with paperwork, primes, and refusal-with thanks.