Summary
Yanniang sought justice for a murdered girl and was beaten for accusing powerful men. Left to die, she encounters a bride sheltering from a storm: the prefect’s daughter, certain her family could never do wrong. A wandering monk has given Yanniang a way to survive. When the bridal procession resumes, she wears the daughter’s face and is bound for the home of her former lover, the marquis who denied knowing her in court. Behind her new household’s gilded doors, grief and devotion become weapons. If the law will never speak for the women of Crowcall Lane, Yanniang will make the powerful answer to her.