Urban Fantasy

David Lin, a divorced accountant, discovers he can audit supernatural contracts. He sees the glowing ledgers behind every spell and finds loopholes in binding pacts. From a strip-mall office, he balances the books of the magical economy, one careful audit at a time.

Sabine Ackerman runs the overnight 911 desk in Rossmere, where calls arrive at 03:13 from streets that no longer exist. Answering the voices stranded in the Offline costs her every protocol she was taught, and draws her toward the one call that took her partner.

Tamar Saybrook is sent to run baseline hydrographic surveys for a tidal barrage across Ebbmouth. In the old Tidewarden's cottage she finds the Ebb Ledger, and in her own hydrophone recordings she finds a bell. The next Long Ebb is eighteen months away, and the model says it cannot happen.