The Cartographer's Labyrinth (eBook)

Whispers of the Shifting Isles

Sophia Navarro (Autor)

Ai (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
252 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
9780000678164 (ISBN)

Infos

Sixteen-year-old Isla Elara prefers the whisper of parchment and the smudge of ink to the gilded cage of the royal court. In the breathtaking Spiral Isles, where land and sea perform an eternal waltz, cartography is a sacred art, a whispered conversation between humans and the living labyrinth of shifting islands.  But when her master vanishes into the maze's pulsating heart, leaving behind only a cryptic map etched on shimmering abalone, Isla's ordered world capsizes.
Driven by fierce loyalty, she plunges into the labyrinth's emerald depths, a world that breathes, shifts, and remembers.  Each echoing step amplifies her anxieties, the whispering corridors mirroring her own internal struggles. Within the maze, she encounters Taron, a haunted navigator seeking redemption for a past betrayal, and Kael, a stoic warrior whose grief fuels a dangerous obsession.  Their paths intertwine, an uneasy alliance forged in the labyrinth's shifting embrace.
But the labyrinth holds a darker secret: the Obsidian Hand, a splinter faction within Isla's own cartographer guild, seeks to harness the power of the Eternal Compass, a mythical artifact said to control the very tides that govern the isles.  Led by the ruthless Valerius Thorne, they believe the isles crave chaos, a world sculpted by perpetual change, even if it means drowning the islands in the process.
Isla must choose between honoring her master's legacy and confronting a terrifying truth: the power she seeks to protect could unravel the very fabric of her world.  With every turn, the labyrinth tests her courage, whispering secrets of a hidden ecology-bioluminescent flora, sentient trees, and symbiotic relationships between land and sea-all reminding her of the interconnectedness she risks destroying.
The race to the Compass becomes a desperate fight against the tides.  As the Obsidian Hand closes in, Isla, Taron, and Kael must learn to trust each other, their individual strengths weaving together to overcome the labyrinth's trials.  But in the heart of the maze, Isla faces a devastating choice: embrace the seductive allure of control, or surrender to the whispers of the living world. The fate of the Spiral Isles hangs in the balance, each echoing tide a testament to the delicate dance between chaos and order, creation and destruction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch
• ISBN-13: 9780000678164 / 9780000678164