Deep in the Forests of Hell on the continent of Threnody, the dead do not rest. They rise as shades - murderous spectral remnants that attack anyone who breaks the Simple Rules: do not kindle flame, do not shed blood, do not run. The only defence is silver, and even that merely holds them at bay. Silence Montane runs a waystop at the edge of civilisation, serving travellers brave or desperate enough to cross the Forests by night. She is also the White Fox, a secret bounty hunter who uses her intimate knowledge of the woods and its dangers to capture criminals no one else will pursue. When the notorious mass murderer Chesterton Divide arrives at her door, the bounty is large enough to clear her debts and protect the two people she loves most - her teenage daughter William Ann and Sebruki, an orphaned girl whose family Chesterton slaughtered. But hunting a killer in the Forests means navigating the shades, rival bounty hunters, and a corrupt intermediary who wants everything Silence has built. A standalone novella set on the planet Threnody in the Cosmere, where the boundary between the living and the dead is enforced not by walls but by rules - and breaking them carries a price no amount of silver can pay.