An epic fantasy in three volumes
The Cartographers of Meddan
Ninety chapters · the Waybook, the winter country, and the returning road
The roads west have been dark for three hundred years. Nobody crosses the mountains, nobody knows what is left on the other side, and the last man who wrote any of it down has been dead since before the beacons went out.
Wren Fallowmere is twenty-three, keeps bees, and inherits the book that maps all of it — a survey of a country nobody has walked since. What follows is a road: seven people, four mules, and a west that has not finished with the people who left it. Written to be read straight through, or a chapter a night.
Contents
- Volume I · The Waybook
- Act I — The Valley of Dall
- 1Honey Harvest
- 2News from the High Pastures
- 3The Grey-Cloaked Guest
- 4The Keeper's Charge
- 5The Book That Cannot Be Given
- 6Words in the Orchard
- 7The Blessing of the Roads
- 8The Bridge at Morning
- Act II — The King's Road
- 9The Corn Country
- 10Marlford Fair
- 11The College of Roads
- 12The Charter
- 13Provisioning
- 14The West Gate
- 15The Drowned Bridge
- 16The Singing Ford
- 17Luel
- 18The Relic Cart
- 19The Last Inn
- Act III — The Borderlands and the Gray Stair
- 20The Watch on the Stones
- 21The Refugee Road
- 22Foothold
- 23The Cold Coomb
- 24Wintering Down
- 25Songs Against the Snow
- 26The Thaw
- 27The Stair of Morning
- 28The Doors of Cloud
- 29First Sight of the West
- 30Camp on the Far Side of the World
- Volume II · The Winter Country
- Act I — The Near Provinces
- 31The Morning Side
- 32The Sleeping Town
- 33The Smoke Answered
- 34The Long Keeping
- 35The Seventh Fire
- 36The Relic Road
- 37The Hollow Town
- 38The Watch Relieved
- 39The Assessor's Ledger
- 40The Province Gate
- Act II — The Dark Beacons
- 41The Beacon Road
- 42The Drowned City
- 43The Deep-Delved
- 44The Second Fire
- 45Songs of the Winter Country
- 46The Strange-Grown
- 47The Sea Ledgers
- 48Quill's Weight
- 49The Deep Quiet
- 50The Names Carried
- Act III — The Wintering Fort
- 51The Way-Fortress
- 52Setting the Watch
- 53The First New Map
- 54Not Owed a Door
- 55The Column of Dates
- 56Wystan's Message
- 57The Wound Named
- 58The Assessor's Winter
- 59The Long Night
- 60The Dark Hill
- Volume III · The Returning Road
- Act I — The Letters' Answer
- 61The Night at the Stones
- 62The Road North
- 63Down the King's Road
- 64The One Door of Stanhope
- 65The Watch Death Kept
- 66The Map on the Table
- 67The Argument
- 68The Cooper of the Western Road
- 69The Arranged Dark
- 70The Eaves of the Amarin
- Act II — The Gray Country
- 71The Tune's Other Half
- 72The Corridor
- 73Seven Less One
- 74The Steading She Did Not Spend
- 75The Mending That Isn't
- 76The Voices
- 77The Reader's Letter
- 78The Twice-Written Name
- 79Kelder Lit
- 80The Door at Elmcross
- Act III — Cael Meddan
- 81The Sleeping Capital
- 82The Surveyors' Hall
- 83Pip Brought Back
- 84The Stones at Winter's Edge
- 85The Wake of Stars
- 86The Night of the City
- 87The Closing
- 88Fallowmere
- 89Winter in the Hall
- 90The Returning Road
The whole book is also narrated, chapter by chapter, with these same paintings — about forty-three hours, read aloud. Listen on YouTube →