The City of Woven Streets

Eliana lives in the House of Webs, where her skill as a weaver gives her a place in a city that has little patience for anyone considered defective or unproductive. She is concealing a difference that could send her to the House of the Tainted if discovered. When an injured woman arrives unable to speak and bearing Eliana's name on her skin, that carefully maintained secrecy begins to unravel. Their connection draws Eliana toward hidden structures of power beneath the city's ordered surface. Meanwhile, the sea continues encroaching on the streets. This dystopian fantasy follows forbidden knowledge and growing intimacy in a place whose rules cannot protect it from its own fragility.