The Cartographer of Lost Things
Mapmaker Marigold Pennicut has spent her life returning what others have lost: wedding rings dropped in riverbeds, letters misdirected by fate, the small keepsakes that slip through the cracks of ordinary days. But when Theodore Ashby arrives at her Wiltshire shop with a compass that points to nowhere and a commission for a map that cannot exist, every rule Marigold has ever drawn for herself begins to smudge. The map is impossible , it shifts when no one is looking, bleeds ink that won't dry, and shows places that have never been. Worse, the ink-wraiths that haunt the moorland crossroads are stirring, drawn to the map's magic the way moths are drawn to a candle. Marigold is the only one who can finish the work her missing mentor Vellum began, but finishing it may cost her the one thing the wraiths hunger for most: her own unmapped heart. With the help of her prickly sister Dot, the pie woman at the crossroads, and a one-eyed cat named Compass who answers to nobody, Marigold must decide how far she'll go for a man who cannot remember his own name , and whether some loves are worth getting lost in.