A Tapestry of Yearnings (Nine Hollow Bells Book 1)

Layla Aiken, prodigal banker and scion of an eponymous Fund, abandoned the family enterprise when she had twins outside of wedlock to open her own tailor. Years later, the morning after attending a gala hosted by her father, her twins are taken away and she’s cut off from all the connections she has nurtured in Baelfyre Port. Destitute, Layla starts a quest to regain both the family and professional life she enjoyed alongside her twins.

Darius Aiken, unlike his younger sister, decided to continue working in the family enterprise. A banker out of his depth, Darius has to contend with rising guild warfare at work and pressures to marry at home. Overwhelmed by work and dissatisfied with his prospects, Darius wonders how it would be to live beyond the shadow of his family as he navigates the disputes between his father and his sister.

Lawrence Harnton, necromancer, continues to survive in hiding. He endeavors to summon the souls of the friends whom he helped bring their end. To succeed, Lawrence took the unofficial job of corpse disposer and now spends his days opening bodies to reap reagents hoping to find the right combination of organs to plead forgiveness from his past.

Layla’s quest for her twins will inevitably intertwine with Darius’s complex troubles and Lawrence’s forlorn hopes. In a city isolated from the world and threatened by an all-out war between prominent guilds, the trio will soon come to realize there is no easy way to obtain what they yearn for.