Edelweiss: Where the Widowbloom Grows

Yves Edelweiss stopped aging the day his wife died. He hasn't stopped paying for it since. Four hundred years of forbidden alchemy have cost him almost everything a person is made of—taste, color, fear, the simple ability to feel what he still, somehow, remembers loving. All that's left is the plan: bring her back, whatever it costs, whatever's left of him by the time it's paid. The next step requires a sealed ruin only the Explorer's Guild can grant access to—and the Guild sends Cecile Brandt: sharp, capable, permanently unpacked, carrying a mentor's compass and a guilt of her own she's been outrunning for years. Neither of them asked for this. But somewhere down this long, quiet road—through a world where railways are swallowing the last of the old magic, one town at a time—Yves will have to answer a question four centuries of ritual never let him ask: what is he actually trying to save?