About the series
In the drought town of Orrin the Choir turns pain into rain, and the people who carry it are drained by measure. A slow-burn dark fantasy about the officials who keep the ledgers and the people written in them.
At a glance
- Genre
- Dark fantasy, romantasy
- Mood
- Dark
- Setting and era
- Invented world
- Pace
- Slow
- Point of view
- Third person
- Reading order
- Read in order
- Heat
- Explicit
The books in order
3 books
Book 1Start here
In the drought town of Orrin, pain is turned into rain and measured in grain. Ivor Rusk, the Hand who drains the vessels, has forty days to empty Sabinne Ord. Then he opens her file and finds two different caps in two different hands. A slow-burn dark fantasy.
Book 2
A Registry of Salt and Silence
A stranger walks into Orrin carrying a collar that should be cold and is not: whatever it holds is still being received somewhere. Sabinne Ord and Ivor Rusk follow it a hundred and forty miles to a house that has kept its receiving ledgers for thirty years.
Book 3
A Cantor’s letter reaches Orrin with a dead body folded into it, and a question no ledger should be able to raise. Sabinne Ord and Ivor Rusk follow the missing grain east, house by house, to an Order that has to rule against itself. The last book of The Unmade Choir.
Where are you in the series?
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Book 1
A Reliquary of Ruin and Hymn
In the drought town of Orrin, pain is turned into rain and measured in grain. Ivor Rusk, the Hand who drains the vessels, has forty days to empty Sabinne Ord. Then he opens her file and finds two different caps in two different hands. A slow-burn dark fantasy.
Book 2
A Registry of Salt and Silence
A stranger walks into Orrin carrying a collar that should be cold and is not: whatever it holds is still being received somewhere. Sabinne Ord and Ivor Rusk follow it a hundred and forty miles to a house that has kept its receiving ledgers for thirty years.
Book 3
A Canticle of Debt and Dawn
A Cantor’s letter reaches Orrin with a dead body folded into it, and a question no ledger should be able to raise. Sabinne Ord and Ivor Rusk follow the missing grain east, house by house, to an Order that has to rule against itself. The last book of The Unmade Choir.
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Get the series
Book 1A Reliquary of Ruin and Hymn
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Book 2A Registry of Salt and Silence
E-book
Paperback
Book 3A Canticle of Debt and Dawn
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Questions
Do I have to read the books in order?
Yes. Each book gives away how the earlier ones end, so read them in the order they are listed.
Where do I start?
With Book 1, A Reliquary of Ruin and Hymn.
How many books are there?
The series has 3 books. It is complete.
About Isolde Marrow
Isolde Marrow writes dark fantasy about rules followed exactly, and the harm that follows them. Her worlds run on ledgers. In the drought town of Orrin, a religious order drains chosen people of their grief in measured, counted draughts and spends it on rain and harvest; on the forms it is called drainage.
