The Tithe of Shadows

Every month, one person is sacrificed to maintain the magical barrier protecting the city from La Déchirure-the reality-warping tear in the world. The Tithe is necessary. The Tithe is just. The system works.
Until Margot Hecate, heir to the most powerful magical house, sees something in her divination that changes everything: the woman about to be sacrificed might be innocent.

Thierry Baron, a half-blood death-walker who speaks to spirits, hears the same truth from the dead themselves. Les Sacrifiés-the sacrificed-have been trying to tell someone for decades. Most of them were innocent. The Covenant is failing. And the Council has been covering it up.

When Margot and Thierry's separate investigations collide, they form an unlikely alliance that makes them both traitors. Hunted by the city's authorities, they flee into the bayou to find the Tchefuncte-the indigenous people the city tried to exterminate a century ago. The same people who warned that the Covenant was flawed from the beginning.
Now Margot and Thierry must return to Bordeneuve with dangerous knowledge, unlikely allies, and a choice: stay silent and watch innocent people die, or speak truth to power and risk everything.

The resistance has begun. And nothing can stop it now.