Marrowlight

The city was built inside a dragon. The dragon is only sleeping.

For nine hundred years, the people of Ossuryn have lived inside the bones of the great dragon Vaelthrax, drawing on the golden marrow in his body under an old covenant: we take only what is given.

Then the Guild-Houses stopped asking.

Now the north is going quiet. Color drains out of the towns. People forget their own names and wander the grey streets, smiling. They call it the Hush.

Tamsin Vale is a thief who fell through the wrong roof. Bran is a paladin whose oath won't light. Sander broadcasts songs from the rooftops of the Seventh Rib, Makari patches up whoever the city breaks, and Oswin is a guilt-ridden wizard with a clockwork owl who knows more than he's saying. None of them meant to become a crew. But together they've stumbled on the secret the most powerful house in Ossuryn has spent decades hiding:

The dragon isn't dead. He's starving.

To save the city, they'll have to cross Kethra, from the endless grass of the Wildreach to the iron halls of Kharn and the drowned isles of Liraen, to recover the lost verses of the covenant, with Captain Corin Hale and his Hounds at their heels. And then they'll have to carry those verses to the bottom of the world, to the heart of the thing they live inside.

Warm, funny and full of found family, Marrowlight is an epic fantasy of neon, steam and old magic, and of what it costs to give something back. It is the first book of The Hush Cycle.