The Echo Weaver

Family court advocate Seren Ashvale was middle-deep in a custody case when she woke up in a rain-slicked alley in Umbraia, a world where every soul is bonded to a sentient Shadow. Seren is different: she is a Hollow, a person without a Shadow, making her a social pariah but granting her the rare Echo Weaver abilities. She can "Unravel" the magical bonds of others or use Void Engineering to create zones completely immune to the empire's shadow-based surveillance.Navigating the vertical slums of Ashwick, Seren applies her Earth-born caseworker instincts to protect children from a regime that views the Shadowless as broken. She recently rescued twelve people from a "processing" facility, using her Echo Touch to temporarily boost her allies' power levels to impossible heights. She doesn't have a status screen or a leveling system, just a heavy wool coat and the terrifying realization that in a world of darkness, the person with no shadow is the only one who can't be watched. Under the "Wrong Stars," she's starting a revolution one file at a time.