
The kind system that promised to keep everyone safe has begun to sicken the very people it marked — and Hannah Reid, a nurse with no name left on any register, kneels in back rooms to tend them, for nothing, because there is nothing to pay with.
The people she loves are scattered; to refuse the order is no longer merely inconvenient but dangerous. And out of the dark the man who helped build it comes back — to confess, and to find her.
As the fire season closes in on Melbourne's outer edge and the long night deepens, everything narrows toward a single hill and the dawn the watchmen always promised.
Hannah has learned what her faith is for. Now she learns what it costs — and what, when everything else has burned, is still standing.
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