The Road That Changed Address

By Emmett Varden

Nella Quoin arrives in Cairnwell with six parcels and a perfectly sensible plan. The town has other ideas.

Seventeen household thresholds have retired. Familiar roads no longer lead to familiar welcomes. And a destination written on a parcel is no guarantee that anyone there can receive it.

Nella wants to finish the work she came to do. Instead, she finds herself negotiating narrower delivery windows, coaxing an opinionated cart through uncertain roads, and making promises that compete for the same few hours. At the receiving hall, a young bookbinder and a hesitant reader are piecing together a story of their own-one Nella keeps meaning to stay long enough to hear.

Then a discrepancy in the archive raises a harder question: did an old parcel ever leave Cairnwell at all?

As changed routes draw her into unfinished histories, Nella must decide what she can carry forward, what needs to return, and how to keep going when doing everything right still leaves something undelivered.

The Road That Changed Address is the second novel in Continuance Courier, a richly illustrated fantasy for teens and young adults, filled with strange roads, dry humor, and the quiet courage of showing up again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HM6MB3YH
• ISBN13: 9798160663029
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"