The Sin-Eater's Ledger
A Novel of the Welsh Borders

About this book:

In the mist-choked valleys of the Welsh Borders, Meredith Cooper has spent forty years eating the sins of the dead. A sin-eater is a vessel, not a man—he takes the lies, the cruelties, the unconfessed thefts onto his own soul for a copper shilling and a crust of salted rye. His ledger records seventy-four names and the weight of their darkness. But when a bailiff rides hard from the Blackwood with three gold sovereigns and a corpse that even the local sin-eater fled, Meredith finds himself swallowing something that doesn't settle like ordinary sin. Morgan Gwilym didn't just hoard petty malice; he trafficked in the old cunning, and his ledger—bound in black leather with silver wire—has just opened a new page in Meredith's blood.

Atmospheric and steeped in borderland folklore, *The Sin-Eater's Ledger* follows a man who thought he knew the price of redemption until the dead stopped staying buried. From the iron-stinking forges of Blaenavon to the crooked oaks of the Skirrid, Meredith walks a path where the parish bell tolls for more than prayer, and every bite of bread might be his last confession.