The Crow-Marked Smile

By Tammy Grove

Some marks are not meant to be hidden.

Micah has always known where he's safe: inside his mother's cottage, where the spinning wheel hums and the hearth keeps the world at bay.

Beyond the door lies the Starwoven Grove - trees that stand like sentries, listening. And on Micah's lip is the Oldmark, a silver scar shaped like a frozen bolt of lightning, quiet and warm... until the day it isn't.

When a crow appears at the window and refuses to leave, Micah is pulled past the threshold he's always feared, into a world of sunken libraries, hollow men, and a mirror-bridge that remembers the stars.

The Crow-Marked Smile is the first book in the Starwoven Grove Chronicles - a story about the marks that shape us, the courage that lives quietly until it's needed, and the moment every threshold must finally be crossed.

Perfect for young readers ready for real language and real magic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBMV9LY9
• ISBN13: 9798188779733
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"