The Bone Crown of Ardrith

Wren Ashenmere stands accused before the Cartographers' Hall, her life's work unfurled at her feet , a three-year survey of an empire that was never supposed to exist. The lines she drew were wrong, and now the Cloaked Stranger, the imperial captain Rell Thandros, and the rebel leader Veylan all want what she knows. Her maps chart the hidden roads to the Bone Crown of Ardrith, a relic of bone and dreaming said to bind the will of a dead god. Master Olivarren urges caution. The sky-pirate Captain Drasha offers escape. The Mute Boy watches with eyes that remember things never written. As the Bone Queen stirs beneath her throne of ivory and the Bone Sentinels rise in answer, Wren's atlas becomes a battleground. Court Guard Lysara enforces an order that is already breaking. Tamsin Quill, Vella Moss, and Sable each carry pieces of the truth Wren needs , or the lies that will bury her. With rebel and imperial forces closing in, and the Dreaming God whispering through the parchment itself, Wren must decide who receives the next map she draws. Hand the crown to a tyrant and unchain a god. Hand it to a rebel and unleash what even the dead fear. Or burn the atlas, and every line with it.