Needle Rain

Samos, Heloise, and Thom: Fate has caught them in her web and the road to their future will be paved with the bones of people these three will wrong. HELOISE A girl barely into womanhood, she learns the violent trade of the debt collector as one of her uncle's Soldiers of Money. Her first command leads to the death of her comrades and an innocent. Grieving, she is forced to touch the world of ghosts and one of them wants her soul. SAMOS Destined to be a feared Immolator warrior, when faced with a choice that will lose him his wife-to-be, he instead chooses to become a traitor. THOM A needle master addicted to the séance drug, Somm. The drug is his weakness and the stone around his neck. Through Somm, he loses everyone he ever cared for. This book has romantic elements and love scenes. Though it contains no gratuitously violent scenes of knitting or cooking, some people die in various excruciating ways.