The Wandering Light

An eight-year-old girl with a mark on her arm that glows when she's afraid. A father in hiding who knows more than he'll say. And a shadow following them north.

Zoah has lived her entire life in a mountain cabin with Nyk, the only person she has ever known. She has never seen a city, tasted sugar, or met another child. But when a corruption in the forest awakens the unprecedented power sleeping inside her, Nyk is forced to abandon the safety he built and take her to the one man who might have answers.

Their journey will carry them through a forest that remembers everyone who enters it, past a guardian older than civilization, and into a town where an ancient book has been waiting three thousand years for someone to touch it.

But Corvin Blackwind is following them.

A former ally turned zealot, Corvin believes the world's magic is dying and that Zoah may be the only thing powerful enough to save it. He does not care what the cure costs her. He has mistaken salvation for possession, and he will burn through anyone who stands between him and the child he believes the world requires.

The Wandering Light is the first book in the Chronicles of Tëlgia, a literary fantasy series about the distance between what you are and who you choose to become, told through the eyes of a child who carries something she does not yet understand and a father who would burn the world to keep her safe.

For readers drawn to the wonder of The Name of the Wind, the mythic intimacy of A Wizard of Earthsea, and the fierce parental devotion of The Road.