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Dagger of Cathay: The Great Accounting (The Seven Roads, Band 3) - Softcover

Mcdermott, Brian Edward

 
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Some debts are counted in coin. Some are counted in the dead. Cathay has opened its gates, but mercy is no longer enough to keep the world at bay. After refusing to enter itself under the manner of Mother's Bank, Cathay becomes the center of a reckoning older than any one house, office, or road. The Bank does not attack with armies. It does something colder: it prices proximity. Every village, road, office, and ally that has touched Cathay begins to pay for standing near its mercy. But from the west comes another accounting. A man with a true book rides from village to village asking who died, what was owed, who was there, and whether the number is right. His hearings are fair. His records are clean. His grief is real. Where Cathay offers witness, repair, and time, he offers something faster: fire. As Mother's Bank calls centuries of obligation due and the western reckoner turns justice into a road of its own, Mara, Wren, Miri, and the people of Cathay are forced into the hardest question the Seven Roads has yet asked: what does mercy owe when being right still costs other people? Old names surface. Buried histories return. A first kitchen reveals the origin of Mother's manner. A ledger becomes a weapon. A house built to heal must face the harm created by its own goodness. And when every old claim comes due at once, Cathay must decide whether accounting can repair the world - or whether every book, even a merciful one, eventually becomes another chain. Dark, mythic, and morally charged, Dagger of Cathay: The Great Accounting is the third book in The Seven Roads, an epic fantasy about debt, memory, inheritance, justice, mercy, and the terrible cost of setting a broken world in order. Every debt will be named. Every mercy will be weighed. And not every account can be closed.

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Brian Edward McDermott, BHA, RN, is an author, nurse, storyteller, and creator of the Mudpies Universe, Dagger of Cathay - The Seven Roads and the Whispers Behind poetry series. Writing across children's books, poetry, mythic fantasy, humor, reflection, and emotional healing, his work blends tenderness, imagination, grit, and heart. Known as Pop-Pop in his children's books, Brian creates stories that help readers of all ages find meaning in ordinary moments, comfort in difficult ones, and hope that keeps working even after life gets heavy. His writing often explores family, grief, resilience, kindness, memory, and the small acts of courage that help people keep going.

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