By the Horns Dixon Ruby (2025)

Gwenna, a former servant hoping to join the Royal Artifactual Guild, insists she is an ordinary womannot a necromancer, since all forms of magic involving the dead are punishable by death. Yet the dead keep talking to her. Her problems grow when Raptor, an arrogant and flirtatious Taurian with whom she once slept, suspects her of stealing an artifact. While Gwenna tries to begin her guild training and support her mother, Raptor pursues her on a secret mission. She must convince him that he has accused the wrong woman, even though the evidence points directly to her.