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The Mother-Knot
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Empress of the Union is dead of a fever, and her youngest daughter does not believe it.
Chaska has spent her life in the shadow of two formidable sisters - unremarkable, unregarded, the one nobody counted into any column. She is also the only person in the palace who noticed her mother losing words all spring, and the only one who knows what her mother promised to reveal the night before she died.
Within a season she is a fugitive with a gray name, running the relay roads among couriers sworn to silence, hunted by her own sister's warrant - and carrying a discovery no one has made in fourteen hundred years: the oldest cords in the sealed annex of the great library are not records at all. They are instructions.
Memory can be read. Memory can be spent. And it will not be given back.
Far to the north, her middle sister - the beloved one, the kind one - has begun to comfort the grieving with her hands. And a realm exhausted by war has begun, gratefully, to line up.
Set in a sweeping world of terraced cities, knotted-cord libraries, relay runners, and black glass mountains, THE MOTHER-KNOT begins an epic trilogy about memory, mercy, and the terrible seduction of being spared - where there is no dark lord, every character is doing the most loving thing they can think of, and the age burns down anyway.
First in the Obsidian Rift trilogy. For readers who want a magic system with a ledger and a villain they'll defend in the group chat.
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