The Elfin Mile (The Wardstane Chronicles)

By Raymond Stone

Book 3 of The Wardstane Chronicles.

Falkirk left the crownless king denied his crown but holding an army of the taken dead, more than ten Wardens and a boy can ever meet. So when the Queen of Elfland opens the third road for the first time in an age, the order goes down it, because the war has grown too big for the world. Thomas the Rhymer rode that bonny road once and was kept seven years and swore never to return. He returns, with Tam the door and Ailis the ferrywoman and the cold iron, to treat with a Queen who both needs the order and despises it, for the crownless king threatens Elfland too: its deathlessness is bought every seven years with a teind, a tithe of stolen souls rendered to an older dark, and a king of all the dead would command the teind itself. But the price is a teind of the order's own, the laying-down of the iron where iron cannot go, and the years: while the three treat a season below, four years run out above, and they will come up strangers into their own war. And on the teind-night Tam means the one thing no king and no court and no dark has foreseen: to stand among the rendered souls and remind them they were stolen and may still choose, and free the teind, and free the Queen herself, the most bound thing in all the worlds, and pay the price. Every recorded event happens exactly as history says. Everything the chronicles could not see is at stake.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HH8CJ2DD
• ISBN13: 9798170712281
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"