The world heart

Book 1 of 12 The Fractured Age

von Michael Gilbert Connor

488 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Rowan Ashford knows maps are supposed to hold still. They measure coastlines, mark borders, and turn the unknown into something that can be understood. But Rowan is an apprentice cartographer whose talent has never quite matched his curiosity - until an ordinary survey chart reveals a hidden route no one else can see.The map points west, beyond the familiar shores of Asterra and into Thalos, a continent where royal charts grow uncertain and ruins wait beneath ancient forests. It also bears a strange broken-circle symbol linked to vanished expeditions, forbidden artifacts, and questions Rowan's family has spent years avoiding. When masked strangers come searching for the chart, Rowan is pulled from his quiet life in Highcrest and placed aboard an expedition whose official purpose hides a dangerous mission.He does not travel alone. Finn Carter, a gifted mechanic with a reckless sense of humor, can repair anything except his own plans. Astrid Stormson, a disciplined Norhaven officer, guards secrets behind every careful answer. Mateo Bellamy, a charming merchant with an inconvenient talent for ancient languages, always seems to know more than he admits. Around them gather soldiers, scholars, explorers, and rivals from different nations, each carrying loyalties into a land none of them truly understands.Their journey follows roads that should not exist. Compasses point toward buried things. Islands appear where the sea should be empty. Ancient markings awaken in crystal and metal, while a force once dismissed begins to stir beneath the world. Every discovery draws the expedition closer to the World Heart, a living source of magic whose fracture reshaped Eryndor and left its people divided by history, ambition, and fear.Rowan wanted to prove he could make one accurate map. Instead, he must learn whether a map records the world or remembers what the world has tried to erase. The farther he travels, the harder it becomes to tell who is guiding the expedition, who is hunting it, and why the hidden road seems to recognize him.Filled with mystery, danger, humor, crystal magic, lost cultures, and a sense of wonder, The World Heart begins an adventure about friendship, buried truth, and the choices people make when they discover the future may depend on where they are willing to go. Some roads should never be found. This may be the only one that can lead them to the truth.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798170110124
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published