The Thread Between Worlds
Mira Ashgrove mends torn lace and fits bridal hems, a quiet seamstress in a town that never looks beyond its own chapel doors. She has no reason to suspect that every stitch she makes is a thread in the Loom, the ancient weave that binds the living, the dead, and the gods who tend them. That peace ends when her grandmother Edelle dies in her arms, pressing a silver needle into her palm and whispering of a broken Twelfth Thread and a dragon older than prayer. Suddenly pursued by Lord Veyran Calder's agents, Mira flees toward the Tideturn, a sea-glass city ruled by Queen Lirael, and from there into the drowned reach of the Archipelago, where the Siren-Children serve a Living God named Aureth and a blind oracle named Thessaly Vorn still feels the Loom-pulse through her ruined eyes. Each ally she gathers costs her something precious. Bram Thistle, the prodigal son who abandoned his own gift; Seraphine Quill, the disgraced High Priestess who traded her sight for prophecy; Sori, a stranger child who should not exist at all. Ashenmaw rises, the Shear descends, and Mira must choose whether to mend what is broken or let the worlds finally unravel.