This is a world where books are banned, because they are believed to have caused a plague.  Well, not necessarily the books themselves, but the ink on their pages.  The Indigo Death, and it spread throughout the land of Montane.  It took Shae’s younger brother, and her mother never really recovered.  In the village where she lives, certain words are never spoken in fear of the plague returning.  (Unless I just don’t remember, they never actually called it “the Hush.”  I think they only called […]