The Physician’s Paid Mark

Li Zhen kneels beside a dead man and pulls a fake hotel room receipt from his sleeve. The date on it matches three different disasters, and she knows that if she brings the wrong answer back, a whole village will pay for it. For fifteen years, she has walked the fighting world as a healer, a spy, and the only person many villagers can trust when clans start treating homes like battlefield dirt. Her hands are steady over broken ribs and poison wounds, but her heart cracks in private when someone asks her to choose between truth and safety. The elders want proof she can be let into their sealed chambers, and the people hunting her want the old routes in her head. Zhen keeps moving, because sto...