Heartwood

Description

Finn, the Anchor, tends his garden on the shore of a world learning to live without gods. A year after the Pact, peace is not the stillness he imagined. It is the chatter of Bloom’s Children, the songs of Deep Listeners, the arguments of survivors trying to build something real out of the ashes of divine certainty.

He is content, and he is terrified. From every direction the new world is tested: the United Hates attacks with whispers rather than fleets, and the Forgotten rise not as monsters but as mourners whose grief was never honoured.