The dead are always walked home. The living aren't always so fortunate. Bren has spent his entire life believing he knew where he belonged. In the forest village of Hearthwood, life is simple. Children learn their family patterns, musicians carve flutes, traders arrive each month, and the dead are carried home by those who loved them. But after walking a man to his ancestral mound, Bren uncovers a truth that unravels everything he believed about himself. Far away in the walled city of Aethryss, Verakh has spent his life earning a place no one expected him to hold. Once a refugee with nothing, he has become one of the city's most respected political figures. Yet beneath honour and prestige lies a past he has spent years trying to bury. Belonging is not always inherited. And not every river leads home. Anam: The River of Names By Jared DeBarra - TheZenPenguin