CATALYST

Three lives are set on a collision course in one mountain city. All three carry the kind of grief that bends magic the wrong way.

Sinn Sebber is heading north on a merchant caravan, a stolen bag of marks and a year of patience at his back, hunting the man responsible for his father's death. He is a Capacitor — when he falls from the sky, his bones drink the impact. Along the way, he finds something he did not plan for: a reason not to turn back.

Lord Turenno Ekkard is already in the city he swore he'd never return to, trying — and failing — to be the man his wife believed he was. He is a Catalyst, and grief has taught him what a Catalyst can do.

Ellene is returning home after two years away, carrying her own grief and a sharp enough mind to have seen most things coming. She does not yet know what she is walking into the middle of.

Catalyst is a story about how much damage grief can do when it finds the right hands — and about the people who survive it, and have to keep living anyway.

A debut fantasy novella for readers of Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy and Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold.