Where the Turning Claims Trust: Book SixThe Memory She Could Not KeepA Forfeiture Offered at the Edge of the Turning Corren's emergency authority now reaches nearly every port on the Shear, and the only refuge left to Dain Ferro and Maren Vane lies across a Turning crossing colder than any they have survived. Dain carries what Stormwatch cost him: a left side gone entirely dark, a shoulder that will not stay in place, and fingers that no longer feel the frost closing on them. Maren carries what the proving took from her, a guardian she can no longer remember and a tremor she is still trying to hide. Rimehold, a chain-harbored cliff-city that has never answered to the Choir, offers shelter and a price. It wants an Open Archive where testimony is kept by consent rather than command, and a Vane to give it weight in law. But the Turning will seal the harbor within days, the grain the city needs arrives under Directorate colors, and every ally Dain and Maren find in the north wants something only one of them can pay for. Among the Choir's own Readers a doubt is spreading that no decree can register, and a Reader once let Maren pass when he should not have. Dain has a memory he is ready to give, and Maren has learned what it costs to keep anything at all. Between them lies the question the Dominion has built its courtship on: what do you offer the person you cannot afford to lose, when the sea and the Choir take memory whether it is offered or not? When the harbor chains lock and the Turning closes over Rimehold, who will still remember what they promised?