Coming this summer
The Keeper's Reluctance
The Crossroads Inn — Book One
The battlefield has no place for broken things.
Briar Thornheart said it to her own soldiers the day she dismissed them, after the magic at Ashen Reach took her sword arm and eleven of her command. She meant it as a kindness. She knew it was a lie.
Six months later, with five coins and no plan, she signs a deed for an inn she didn't know existed — at a crossroads where five realms touch, run by a man who watched her from the upper window before she ever knocked.
The Crossroads Inn doesn't look for warriors. It looks for the ones who walked away. And something in its foundation is starting to wake.
The keeper hasn't finished the account yet.
The inn keeps its hours; the book about it does not. The Keeper's Reluctance is in its last stretch — the writing nearly done, the editing close behind. The full account is ready this summer. We'll send one letter when it is. No reminders. No build-up. Just the day.
Be first when the book is ready
The Keeper's Reluctance — Book One of The Crossroads Inn — is in its last stretch. Leave your name in the ledger and you'll be the first to hear the day the keeper finishes.
No letters before the day. No reminders. One word when the book is ready, and that's it.
While you wait
The Prologue is already by the fire. So is the first chapter, if you join the Hearth.