What the Sky Remembers: Book Three of Alderveil Trilogy

The dragon flies before breakfast most mornings. Mara watches from the well. She has been watching for over a year, which is not the same as wanting to. Except that it is. There is a letter in the desk drawer that has been there since winter. Not a threat yet. Someone asking questions - not formally, not on record - about places like this one. The inn has become visible. And visible things, in a world busy with its forgetting, attract attention. An official is coming. He will arrive with a title, a remit, and no idea what he is walking into. Including a basilisk whose gaze has quietly found its purpose, and what it means to be looked at by something that sees clearly what you have forgotten about yourself. Meanwhile a dragon is carrying a centuries-old memory his archive has finally told him what to do with. The cost is real. He has not said it aloud yet. And a grey being in the corner has a small number of sentences left to deliver. Each one has been concise and precise. The last ones will be more so. Mara can hold the rounds. She can hold the inn. She can do every practical thing that needs doing while the world decides what her home is worth. What she cannot manage her way out of is what happens when you stop watching from the ground. What the Sky Remembers is the conclusion of the Alderveil Trilogy - and its full answer to whether it is enough to remember something the world has decided to forget. A keeper who discovers, when the pressure finally arrives, that she cannot be separated from what she has built. Because she has, without quite noticing, become it. For readers of TJ Klune and Katherine Addison.

Pagina's: 210, Paperback, Independently published