Case Forty-Nine: The Broken Bell

Nao woke among funeral cloths with a bell in her sleeve and a lie-making craft that made every lie ring out as discord. She had been reborn in another world, and the first thing she learned was that the dead woman in her house had been moving through royal and holy places in secret. Nao alone knew what that woman had done in her final weeks, and that knowledge made her useful to people who wanted her help and dangerous to those who wanted her quiet. Her guilt ran deeper than fear, because the wrong people from her old life now watched her try to become better. She kept choosing care when a harsher path would have been easier. The bell in her hand could expose any lie, except the one she told...