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The Wayhart of Lanternmere

The Wayhart of Lanternmere

Rowe, Verda

Paperback

Series: Thistlewick Hollow, Book 6

Fantasy

ISBN13: 9798194356935
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A ROAD CAN SHORTEN DISTANCE. IT CANNOT MAKE A PROMISE TRUE.

The thaw survey carries Wren Ashcombe beyond Greywood to Lanternmere, a lake town where old lantern-marked roads have begun shortening, looping, and returning travellers to places that cannot truly receive them.

At the water's edge walks a wounded wayhart. It takes water, refuses treatment, and chooses its own paths while the town argues over what those paths mean.

Lanternmere has no shortage of welcome on paper: beds, shelters, market promises, open doors. In practice, some doors are closed, some rooms cannot safely receive the people being sent to them, and every magical shortcut makes it easier to ignore the difference.

To make the roads safe, Wren and Cormac must help the town separate kindness from capacity, magic from obligation, and care from control-without turning the wayhart into anyone's solution.

Warm, thoughtful and quietly romantic, The Wayhart of Lanternmere is cozy fantasy about magical creatures, found family, mature love, and the courage to leave one road long when that is the honest choice.

Follow the lantern road east. Just don't assume the shortest way is the safest way home.

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