The Keeper of Ash

In the fog-bound duchy of Morvaine, the revered magistrate Lord Aldric Vane has spent forty years building a legacy of justice. But his youth was forged in gutter blood and a hanged man's name. When whispers of that buried past surface, Aldric does not defend his honor with words—he extinguishes every living witness, one by one. Yet each murder chips away the very justice he swore to uphold, until the dead demand a reckoning that no statute of limitations can bar.