The Lantern Thread

One by one, the lights of Thistlemarsh are going out.

It is the last night of harvest, nine nights before the Lantern Festival, when the first lantern on Cobbler's Row goes dark. Not guttered. Not broken. Simply stopped, the way a held breath stops. Then the next. And from somewhere far down the river, a voice no one has heard in three hundred years starts calling Wren Calloway by name.

Wren has a shop to run, a stove-spirit who wants his toast, and a ferryman who has kept his coat on her peg for months without ever saying why. Now she also has a charming Crown Commissioner in grey gloves who wants the town's old, answered light for himself, a salvage captain from Oswin's past who knows exactly how to unsettle her, and an old man who walks past her door every night and cannot bring himself to knock.

To keep the Row lit, Wren must follow the fading light down the long water to the sea, and learn the one word that can turn it back.

Fog, danger, found family and a love that finally says it out loud. Book Two of The Thistlemarsh Mending Shop, a cozy romantasy with real stakes and a slow burn that pays off.