Some accounts can't be settled the ordinary way.
Brix Asholt has spent eight years carrying the cost of a right decision. His partner traded away the memory of their twenty-two years together - not from cruelty, but from necessity, and with his full understanding and consent. He arranged the visit. He waited outside. He has been managing the weight of it, efficiently and alone, ever since.
When he finds the Lantern Market, he arrives with a transaction in mind and a departure already calculated. He does not expect to stay.
But the market has never been asked to take what Brix is carrying - and the vendor tasked with finding a solution is about to discover a flaw at the foundation of everything the market thought it knew about itself.
The Account Between is the second book in the Lantern Market Chronicles - a story about the grief that lives underneath understanding, and the communities that make it possible to put things down.
