A Map of Vanished Things

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Pre-order Book One of The Waking Lands now, direct from Fenn & Fable, in paperback or hardcover — it ships on release day, 28 August 2026. (Ebook and audiobook coming soon.)

Seventeen-year-old Neve has spent her whole life on the still, safe shore, aching for a world large enough to get lost in. Then strangers come off the evening tide — a weathered man, a hound the size of a table, and a word for the thing that has woken behind her eyes.

Neve is a Reckoner: one of the rare few who can feel the living land move. Across the Sunder Sea lies the country her family fled — the Waking Lands, where the ground itself wanders, where homes vanish and can never be found again, and where her grandmother’s lost village may not be as lost as everyone believes.

But something waits in the moving dark that would freeze the whole world still, to stop it ever breaking a heart again — and only a girl who understands that home was never a place can hope to stop it.

A Map of Vanished Things is Book One of The Waking Lands: a big-hearted, dark-edged fantasy adventure.

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