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 the 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.
The Waking Lands begins here ? a big-hearted, dark-edged epic for readers who love immersive worlds, aching family sagas, and adventure with real stakes.
