Mara Ashwick is back in her routine: warmth charms, keep-fresh spells, impeccable paperwork. Then a ward-marker failure leads her to a condemned building and a dead practitioner - and a twenty-two-year maintenance record that was never supposed to be found.
The investigation takes her into Thornwick's restricted Guild records, an old authorization chain that reaches the highest levels of the permanent administration, and a boundary structure beneath the town that the official history does not fully describe.
The murder has an answer. The records point deeper than the murder.
What the Veil Keeps is the second witchy cozy mystery in The Unbound Chronicles - set in the magical market town of Thornwick, where the Guild regulates what you can declare, and the things kept beneath the Veil have been patient for a very long time.