Overview
Six hundred and twelve people died at the same second.
Nothing dies at the same second.
In the harbor city of Corve, every slate keeps the last thing its owner saw. Vessa reads them for the Quay. She is nineteen, the best in the city at the smears nobody else can read, and she has decided the dead are easier than people. They tell you one true thing, and then they let you go.
Then the ferry Garland is lost in the lane with forty schoolchildren aboard. One of them is the little sister of the boy at the next desk.
The city wants a war. The Panes show an enemy picket and a voice saying claw her now. But Vessa, alone at a long table at three in the morning, has counted four hundred and sixty-two clocks, and every one of them stopped at 17:52:06.
A ship doesn't die in a second. Something else did this.
And the ballast stone at the heart of the city's case carries her mother's mark.
To find out who killed the Garland, Vessa will have to do the one thing she has avoided for five years: ask people things. She'll need a baker's boy who says hello to the dead, a girl who counts everything, a keeper's son who stands like a locked gate, and an old marine with a bad leg who has been waiting five months for her to ask him a single question. Every door she opens leads deeper under the mountain, toward the people who keep the city's ships in the air and know exactly what she'll find.
Under a giant that never sets, in a city that has already decided what happened, one girl is about to read the last image nobody wanted read.
Last Image is the first book of Cleave: a mystery, a grief, and a war somebody wanted.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798160628691
- ISBN-10: 9798160628691
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.98 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
- Page Count: 440
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