Bonesetter: Against the Grain: Book One
He broke a bridge and killed a boy. Now he has to hold up a building.
Oswy Brask was a bonesetter in Mardle, a joiner who could feel the grain in wood, stone and bone and coax it to mend. It cost him the warmth in his own hands. Then he took a bribe, a bridge fell, and a mason's boy died under it. His punishment was the Gault, a pit that nobody walks back out of.
He comes up in a flooded creek in Nashville in the year 2243.
The city is thirty million strong and half grown from living timber. Oswy can't speak the language and has no papers, and most of the city's walls feel like nothing at all under his hands. But in the flood shelters of the Bottoms, broken bones still need setting. Before long, people know the foreigner who fixes them for a bowl of soup.
Then he puts his hand on the basement main support column of the Harding Arms and feels it cracking. Two hundred people live above it; nobody believes him, and the spring rains are coming.
Bonesetter is Book One of Against the Grain, a biopunk fantasy about guilt, found family, and what it costs to hold something up.
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