The Bride Who Sees the Dead

In 1891, on the North Sea coast of the kingdom of Beierheiwen, Sailisi Ansiwosi is drowned in her family's secret altar, offered to a sea monster by her father and her stepmother. A necklace worn by Meilin, a night watcher murdered in 2026, flares with white light and sends her back, and the light stays in her hands: she can heal, drive out a curse, and see the dead. She saves the cursed crown prince Jialeisi, walks into her own funeral alive, forces her father to cage her stepmother and sink her, and accepts the marriage decree that makes her a princess in name for six months, because the palace is where her brother was sent eight years ago. Inside, every gift she gives buys her an enemy: she unblinds a dowager the queen has been poisoning, rides out of the palace in a laundry basket for the drug that does it, revives a drowned woman and hears the word witchcraft shouted, and witchcraft is a crime here. She summons a dead queen to swear the prince is the king's own blood.