The Potter’s Thumb

“’Tis only the potter’s thumb, Huzoor.” As a woman traces a furrow across a dying child’s chest, she gives George Keene and Dan Fitzgerald a chilling account of why children in Hodinuggur are born to crack.

In the heat and dust of colonial India, Hodinuggur is a town built over the ruins of older worlds, where British authority rests uneasily beside the power of its local rulers. New to the place, George must face a test of honesty at the sluice-gate—one that has already defeated two of Dan’s subordinates. Dan sees danger and strangeness everywhere; George would rather dismiss his warnings, even as a mysterious woman named Chândni and the unsettling Mirza Dalel Beg cross their path. Beneath the town’s crumbling grandeur, whose hand is shaping George’s fate—and where will the next crack appear?

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