The Witch of Wren Hollow
When a crooked sparrow delivers a forbidden letter to village hedge-witch Wren Applewhistle, the quiet life she has built grinding comfrey and yarrow comes crashing down. Her mento
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The Ember Concordat
Brynne Calderwell has spent her whole life learning to draw the world , its coasts, its kingdoms, its forgotten corners. When she is accepted into the Cartographer's Order at the L
The Tea Witch of Briarfield
Wren Thistlewood has spent years keeping the road beneath her boots and a kettle over her flame, refusing to look back at the village that raised her or the aunt she could not save
The Cartography of Unintended Places
Wren Thistlecrane sinks into the mud of Briarfen marsh-town the moment she steps off the ferry, and the town proves just as treacherous as its footing. She has come searching for h
The Wren of Hollowmere
The ink on the floorboards told the story first. Dark droplets spattered across the grain, trailing from the doorway to the great oak workbench where cartographer Maren Tuck lay dy
Dead Letters and Pecan Pie
For twenty-three years, Eugenia Crick has opened the Hollow Creek post office before sunrise, her brass key as familiar in her hand as a prayer. So when Postmaster Hiram Pettigrew
The Curious Case of the Clocktower Cuckoo
When the clocktower's cuckoo stops at midnight, Wren Calloway knows something is terribly wrong. The old tower has kept time for three generations without missing a single chime, a
Salt and Light
Callum Ashworth has kept Morrow's flame for nineteen years. He knows the exact weight of the brass reservoir, the angle at which the lens throws its blade of light across the water
The Peculiar Inheritance of Mortimer Underbough
Mortimer Underbough has spent his life folding correspondence in proper triplicate. So when a thick, cream-colored envelope sealed with a geometric eye arrives between a memo about
The Shape of June
June Hartley thought she had escaped Pine Hollow, Vermont, for good, until a call about her estranged mother's failing health pulls her back to the sleepy town that never quite for
The Wren and the Wandering Inn
Two days from home and already lost, Wren Greenberry arrives at the weathered village of Larkspur seeking refuge, but the inn she steps into hides a far older secret than she could
The Cartographer of Borrowed Light
Winslet Finch steps off a wheezing bus into Thornfield Hollow, a village shrouded in a mist so thick it seems to swallow the sky. She carries a folded letter pressed against her ri
The Lamplight Supper Club
When a stranger presses a brass key into Marigold Fenwick's palm and dissolves into the cobblestones of her quiet village, her unremarkable life as a baker's daughter ends forever.
The Unbrewed Leaf
The first jar cracked before Tamsin Farrow reached the top of the hill, and she heard it through the cobbles like a finger circling the rim of a cold cup. She did not stop. She did
The Last Available Room
When a booking mistake strands Eliza March at the Bramble and Birch Inn during the busiest week of the year, she expects cold hospitality and a borrowed blanket. Instead, she gets
The Light Between the Pines
A grieving woman returns to her family's Vermont cabin and discovers a century-old love letter that leads her to the man it was never delivered to. When Ellis Hawthorne inherits he
The Light Between Closed Shutters
Claudette Whitfield never asked for Ashgrove Hall. Rain sweeps sideways across the drive as she idles at the wrought-iron gates, engine humming, courage failing. The estate has bee
The Cartography of Small and Forgotten Things
Wren Hartwell knows the Royal Cartographic Office the way a sailor knows a familiar coastline: by the soft complaints of its floorboards, the smell of beeswax and old vellum, the p
A Book of Small Deaths
The Atlantic wind howls against the cliffs as Maren Halliday steers her rental car into the salt-worn town of Blackthorn Cove, where the past isn’t just remembered, it’s preserved
The Hollow Bell
Dawn mist rises off the creek and pools in the dips of the old road when Silas Croft begins his daily walk through the hollow, the same route his boots have traced for forty years.
The Shape of Almost
Wren Lockhart has been gone from Pine Street for years, but her borrowed suitcase still catches on the third porch step of her grandmother's weathered house, the same step it caugh
The Quiet Before the Fall
Winnie Marsh has not set foot in Marshfield, Vermont, in two years. The rusted welcome sign leaning west and the faint smell of cider drifting down Main Road are exactly as she rem
The Tea House at Hollowmere Pond
Dessa Pickerel arrives at the village of Hollowmere by canal boat, expecting little more than a quiet cup of tea at the weathered establishment whose sign has long puzzled passing
Terms of Endearment (and Expiration)
Henrietta Whitfield has always been good at following the rules, which is why she agreed to the arrangement without hesitation. Six weeks. Clear terms. A specific end date. She cam
The Hollowfern Conspiracy
A bundle of dried silverwort falls from a crooked shelf in Malliver's Sundries and Astrid Beckford hears it from three shops away, the first small rupture in a quiet that has been
Where the Cobblestone Ends
June Ashbury arrives at a wind-scoured village on the edge of a crumbling cobblestone road, carrying nothing but a rented cart with a broken wheel and a cartographer's ledger she n