A Waystation for Lost Roads

Forty-three people vanished. Her signature helped erase the road.

Six years later, disgraced road registrar Mara Vey has one last chance to make herself useful. She claims Gannet, a derelict sentient waystation with a cold hearth, a sealed fourth bell and thirty days to earn three public Rights before the Office dissolves it.

Fire comes first. Then Shelter.

With each hard-won repair, Gannet remembers more of the road hidden beneath its floors and the people still trapped inside it. One of them is the mother of Pella Rusk, a courier who has every reason to hate Mara and no time left for apologies.

To bring all forty-three home together, Mara must expose the surveyor who falsified the closure, outmanoeuvre the company selling pieces of the missing road and ask Gannet to risk the very Right it needs to survive.

Because a waystation is not measured by what it owns. It is measured by whom it refuses to leave outside.

A Waystation for Lost Roads blends found-family warmth with a fair-play mystery, a ticking clock, practical magic and a sentient house learning that shelter is not the same as captivity. Book One of The Quiet Roads delivers a complete, hopeful story while opening the way to the next journey.