The Spirit Bell Chose My Son

Xinyue is on her knees in a locked room when the first ghost presses cold fingers against her wrist. She has already woken inside someone else’s life, and she already knows the boy in her care will grow into the kind of man people fear. That knowledge makes every small choice feel heavy. If she keeps him close, she may protect him from the worst of what is coming. If she pushes too hard, she may destroy the only soft part of him left. She also has a strange gift for hearing the dead through objects, and it keeps dragging her into cases the police cannot explain. A detective named Chen keeps showing up when her lies start to crack. The problem is simple and cruel. The future she remembers is ...