A Spell for Heartsickness (The Rune Tithe #1)

by Alistair Reeves

Everything always cost more when you had less. The injustice of it stung in older, more grievous wounds.

Linden spoke with the conviction of a lie told so many times it had become ideology, a belief held to so firmly because to accept the reality would be to see himself for the first time, and to loathe what he saw.