The Roads That Wander at Night
Some roads lead somewhere. Others remember what the world has forgotten.
Twelve years ago, seven-year-old Tavra Lorne watched her brother step onto a road that should not have existed.
By morning, the road was gone.
So was everyone's memory of Aren.
Everyone's except hers.
Now nineteen, Tavra has spent her life at the Lantern House, an old roadside inn where travelers come and go while she quietly records the people, places, and impossible things the rest of the world seems determined to forget.
Then, in the middle of the night, every bell in the village begins to ring.
The ancient road beside the Lantern House wakes.
And leaves.
By sunrise, no one remembers it was ever there. Soon maps begin losing Tavra's village. Travelers can no longer find their way to the inn. Even the people she loves are beginning to forget the place they call home.
Then something knocks beneath Tavra's bedroom floor.
Buried beneath the boards is a single warm paving stone bearing a message:
COME BEFORE WE FORGET YOU TOO.
Following it means leaving home for the first time-and trusting Silan Orro, a runaway Waybinder carrying a living map and far too many secrets.
Together they enter a world beyond the edges of ordinary maps, where rivers climb mountains, forgotten cities hang beneath enormous stone bridges, luminous beings weave clothing from rain, tiny creatures preserve voices spoken generations ago, and roads move beneath the stars toward destinations of their own choosing.
But something is killing those roads.
And somewhere beyond the mapped world waits the brother Tavra has spent twelve years refusing to forget.
Finding him will uncover a truth far larger than either of them imagined-about the roads, the vanished places they carry, and what happens when humanity becomes so afraid of uncertainty that it tries to make every path lead somewhere safe.
To save the future, Tavra may have to choose the one road she has spent her whole life fearing most:
the one whose destination she cannot see.
The Roads That Wander at Night is a sweeping, immersive fantasy of living roads, forgotten places, magical creatures, slow-burning love, family, loss, and the courage to step toward an unknown future.
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