The Heart the Scales Refused

Meryt has spent a decade consuming condemned hearts and carrying their guilt inside her own body. When forensic scribe Neset proves the Duat’s golden Scale has been rigged, the two women flee aboard a sun-barge to expose the throne that forged its verdicts. But Neset’s living heart is the hidden counterweight holding the corrupt system together, and freeing it may require erasing Meryt’s true name forever.

A heart-devourer and the forensic scribe who exposes a rigged underworld scale must rewrite divine law before the corrupt throne erases them both.