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The Last Survey: The Mosshaven Trilogy, Book Two
Paperback
Series: The Enchanted Trails of Mosshaven, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four hundred years is long enough to know the difference between a place you've stayed and a place you've chosen.
Elara Ashvane, former guild scout and founder of Mosshaven's beloved Running Club, has been not-examining that difference for decades.She knows which muffin Bramble saves for her. She knows where the light comes through the old beeches at the fourth trail marker. She has built a community that functions like a heart around her - warm and steady - and positioned herself at its edge where she can give without receiving.
Then the guild sends the one person who knows exactly how she built it.
Sable Crenn spent forty years becoming the scout Elara shaped her to be. She arrives with a professional assignment - the Whispering Wood's trails are rerouting, its root networks passing something along, and the guild wants answers - and a quiet confidence that affection is more persuasive than formal request. She isn't wrong. She's just prepared for the wrong resistance.
The Wood is doing something that cannot be mapped by traditional instruments. And Elara's deflection system, perfected over centuries, has one flaw: it does not work on the person who learned it from her.
The Last Survey is a cozy fantasy about the particular courage of sitting still in the centre of what you have built - and the difference between a life that looks like belonging and one that actually is.
For readers of T. Kingfisher, Becky Chambers, and Katherine Addison.
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