Black Glass Road

She was hidden from Atherin. Now Atherin wants an answer.Summer Rose has gathered the hidden heirs of the First Bell, but saving them has awakened something far older than the Draeven's hunger.Beneath the Lake of Whispering Lights, the Fourth Place rises: a buried mechanism of road, lock, court, and grave that once recognized truth but has forgotten the difference between people and functions. As old Atherin law turns grief into evidence and love into leverage, Summer must defend her household from a Hunter who wears court-shape, a Registrar who records without mercy, and a road that mistakes recognition for consent.Rowan, Jonah, and Talia carry the Guardian, Storm, and Memory answers, but each answer comes with a wound the enemy knows how to use. Nyx and Belle must face the truth of Summer's bloodline and the terrible choice that broke their family apart. Tom stands beside Summer as the war demands not only power, but trust. And Summer herself must decide what it means to be Keeper when every old law wants to name her before she can name herself.The road to Atherin has accepted terms.Now the Keeper must answer.