Surrounded by Three Men, I Read Human Hearts

Suyin only wanted one quiet night after the festival, but the city broke open when the dead started biting in the smoke. Her horse trainer's eye for fear and movement lets her read people before they lie, and that skill keeps pulling her into fights she never meant to lead. A folded crossbow in her cot, a compass from her mother, and a wooden seal-stamp that hums near the dead become the few things she trusts. The more she learns to fight by drawing lines between herself and everyone else, the more dangerous her own gift becomes. In a shelter full of armed survivors, the person smiling the widest is already planning where to put the knife.