{"title":"Jeanne Ott","description":"\u003cp\u003eDark fantasy about the price of a certainty. Three Confessions is her first series, and A Light Left Burning is the first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-light-left-burning","title":"A Light Left Burning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Auremark, the dead cannot lie. Someone has taught them how.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComing soon.\u003c\/strong\u003e This title is finished and in production.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"mailto:hello@northlume.org?subject=Tell%20me%20when%20A%20Light%20Left%20Burning%20is%20available\"\u003eEmail me when it's available →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the back cover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA truth for a truth. It is the only coin the dead will take.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor thirty years, Confessor Minoe Caul has knelt beside the murdered and paid them the truest thing she owns, so that they will give up their last three answers and name the hand that killed them. In Auremark the dead do not lie, and the House of Last Light is the one power that can wake them, and upon that single certainty the whole realm has laid its justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen she is called to a locked room where a murdered woman will not answer. The dead woman's three truths have already been drawn out of her and stolen, by a hand that should not exist, and folded into a hollow in the wall is her daughter: a silent child of six who hears the dead as easily as breathing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo keep the girl, Minoe follows a trail of emptied graves out of the city and into the black marsh country, a skeptical crown's Serjeant at her side and a patient, unhurried man walking the roads ahead of her. For the child is what he has come to collect. And the one truth the whole world leans upon is about to be proven a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Light Left Burning is the first novel of Three Confessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeanne Ott\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrace Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Confessions, Book One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 170 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:1.6em;font-size:0.82em;line-height:1.5;color:#7a7168;text-align:left;\"\u003eCover art: \u003cem\u003eLady Bug\u003c\/em\u003e, Frederick W. Freer, c. 1887. 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A body dead by another's hand can be compelled to answer, truthfully, and only a consecrated sister of the House of Last Light can wake it. Upon that single certainty the whole realm has built its justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep in a frozen winter, Confessor Minoe Caul sits the last nights of a condemned clerk who swears he is innocent, and she believes him, because she has spent thirty years knowing the true note of a voice. But the man was named from the grave by his own murdered master, in the House's own lawful rite, and the dead do not lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo save him, Minoe must prove the impossible, that a grave has lied, and the proving would shatter the one certainty the realm rests upon and turn every eye toward the House of Last Light and the silent child she hides inside it. So she goes down to the one soul disbelieved for doubting the dead: Trea, a disgraced crown's Serjeant exiled to count barges on the iced-in wharves. Together they follow a trail of forged testimony and bought silence toward a clean, patient man who plants lies in the dead for coin, while the thaw comes on to hang an innocent, and the hunter of the first book draws nearer to the thing he most wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrust No Grave is the second novel of Three Confessions, a dark, literary fantasy mystery about the price of truth and the people who refuse to pay it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeanne Ott\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrace Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Confessions, Book Two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 166 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:1.6em;font-size:0.82em;line-height:1.5;color:#7a7168;text-align:left;\"\u003eCover art: \u003cem\u003eThe Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife)\u003c\/em\u003e, Ford Madox Brown, 1872. 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