The Crown Unbound

At dusk the river turns the windows of Hadris to bronze. By suppertime, Queen Ivara can cross two courtyards, take a seat at the Long Table and be told to move because she is blocking the bread.

Then the air gives way under a courier's wings at West Common. She strikes the landing, and a city built to welcome people home begins closing its stairs and terraces. Ivara's own restoration has put new metal into old stone all over Hadris. A surveyor named Dema wants to find out what those repairs are holding in place. The answer may require Ivara to undo work she put her name on, with an entire city still walking across it.