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The Hearth Between Paths
Some roads lead to destinations. Others lead to remembrance.
Wingate Carlton has always believed that stories matter. As a genealogist, aspiring cleric, and collector of forgotten histories, she spends her days preserving the names of people the world has already begun to lose. Old records. Family trees. Church ledgers. Letters tucked into drawers. If a life once existed, Wingate believes someone should remember it.
Then a strange book finds her.
The Wayfinder's Almanac is filled with impossible places: roads that do not appear on maps, doors that open where no door should stand, villages forgotten by history, and a mysterious refuge known only as the Hearth. Some say it appears to the lost. Some call it a sanctuary between roads. Others insist it is only a myth.
Wingate, unfortunately for everyone's peace of mind, has questions.
Joined by an unlikely company of travelers-a reluctant eladrin scholar, a gentle firbolg guardian, a watchful half-elf guide, a halfling rogue with a dangerous relationship with stories, and one deeply judgmental cat-Wingate follows clues into the Unraveling, a place where roads forget their destinations and memory itself begins to fray.
But the closer the Wayfinders come to the Hearth, the more one question follows them:
What happens to the people, places, and stories the world forgets?
A cozy epic fantasy about friendship, memory, impossible roads, found family, and the promise that no one should have to face tomorrow alone.