The Harbor Song

Some debts are paid in hours. Some in everything.

Ninety years ago, Vivienne Morrow walked out of a Southie bar with her head high and a promise unspoken. She built a house on Beacon Hill, then a nest, then an empire. She now holds the Chair of the Council, and every Elder who ever called her a seamstress answers to her.

Phelan never left. He tends the lines under three miles of South Boston, serves a pint to anyone who asks, and can't tell a lie, which has made ninety years of silence very loud.

When a creature chained beneath the harbor since the colonies breaks loose, the old lines scream and the old arrangements come due. The Court sends a summons with Phelan's name on it. The Hill's ground book shows a column headed paid that's still empty. And the Fallen Response Unit, new to Boston and short a friend, comes looking for a liaison.

Viv and Phelan are the only two left who remember the sawdust on Broadway. They are also the two least able to say what happened between them.

A slow-burn urban fantasy about grief, duty, and the song you can't stop singing under your breath, The Harbor Song is Book 3 of the Ask Me Again series, a love story that is finally old enough to be honest.

Start with Piecework. Then Blackthorn.