The Healer's Bargain (The Silent Tribes #5)

Lirra Voss walks into the Stonehollow camp without an invitation because children are dying and she knows what it is. Soil pathogen. Burial ground drainage. Three days to treat the acute cases, two weeks to clear the source.

Rauth gives her what she asks for before she finishes asking. This is new enough to register.

On the second day she finds the sealed chamber at the back of the ossuary — different clan mark, different age, two hundred years of clan law between her and its contents. She asks about it. Rauth tells her who Vedda was. He tells her why he let her through the gate on the first morning.

Inside the chamber: the complete prophecy, the twelve-bond sequence, the speaker’s cost. And a list, in Vedda’s hand, of the guild families who buried it — one of which has had a representative in Stonehollow territory for six years, waiting.The faction has known what was in that chamber for a century. They have been protecting it.

Lirra walked in to fix one thing. She leaves holding the most significant find in two hundred years, with a warchief who does not require her to prove herself twice.

Dark fantasy romance. Slow burn. Explicit. Fifth in the Silent Tribes series.