Meredith spent fifteen years building risk models. Nothing prepared her for a world whose geometry moves with emotion, where beautiful maps grow cages around anyone who recognizes them, and where the mapmaker has been trading travelers’ lives for his masterpiece for two centuries.
With a patient talking fox and a courier who stopped believing in guardians, Meredith must learn a way of knowing no spreadsheet can hold. Because the cartographer has seen exactly what she grieves. And he is offering it to her.
The maps are lying. The territory tells the truth to anyone brave enough to listen.