Jezelle: Thief of Forks (Absolution of the Morning Star)

Jezelle is seven when her father discards her at a brothel in Grafton Notch.

She survives by staying small, quiet, and out of reach—until that is no longer enough.

One day, she wills a silver fork into her hand from across the room, and the miracle buys her way out.

But the streets are worse.

Hunger teaches her to steal. Fear teaches her to vanish. And two other gutter-born girls teach her the most dangerous thing of all: how to hope. Together they become the Silver Tine Girls, leaving their mark on a brutal city that feeds on children like them.

But Jezelle’s talent—and the strange magic behind it—puts her in the sights of people who see broken girls as tools to be used, owned, and discarded. In Grafton Notch, power belongs to the cruel.

If Jezelle wants a life of her own, she will have to steal that too.

Jezelle: Thief of Forks is an adult grimdark fantasy about stolen childhoods, street survival, strange magic, and found family forged in the dark.