Book One · a prologue and 33 chapters · 88,798 words
Chapters
Every chapter carries a seal, and every mark on it is true: one tick for each 250 words, the red hand for where the chapter stands in the book, the number in Roman, as the book writes it.
Prologue
Chapter 1The Wrong Sin
Chapter 2The Consultation
Chapter 3A Dollar for the Stairs
Chapter 4What a Body Holds
Chapter 5An Address and No Tenant
Chapter 6The Bills
Chapter 7Nine Hundred Dollars and a Covenant
Chapter 8Nothing Changes Hands Free
Chapter 9Withdrawn
Chapter 10The Alleyway
Chapter 11The Rendering Works
Chapter 12The Bone King's Terms
Chapter 13The Fourth Clause
Chapter 14The Ville
Chapter 15What It Remembers
Chapter 16A Stronger Pair of Hands
Chapter 17By These Hands
Chapter 18This Side of the Water
Chapter 19The Witness Contract
Chapter 20The Name on the Works
Chapter 21Whose Goods
Chapter 22Not a Public Book
Chapter 23Work, Not Paper
Chapter 24The Ditch, and the Reading
Chapter 25An Account in My Name
Chapter 26The Offer
Chapter 27The Crossing
Chapter 28One Penny
Chapter 29The Coat
Chapter 30The Ville
Chapter 31The Ask
Chapter 32The Theft
Chapter 33What His Father Did
Book Two
The Fourth Clause
The story concludes in the second book of the duology.