Grief Mentor

Meredith spent fifteen years calculating risk for hedge funds. Then the brass compass in her grandmother's cottage began to scream. Two weeks into a Guardianship she never asked for, Meredith crosses into a dimension made entirely of crystal, where every surface reflects the truth you least want to see. Someone is corrupting the maps that keep travelers alive. The maps are beautiful. They are deliberately wrong. And they kill anyone who recognizes them. With a patient fox mentor at her side and a sharp-tongued courier who has survived three weeks in the maze, Meredith follows the corruption...

Every morning, Caleb Mercer walks onto a trading floor where a wall of names and numbers tells him exactly how much he's worth — and lately, the number beside his name has been red. He's drowning in a way no one at the office can see: a bounced credit card payment, a wife picking up weekend shifts to cover the gap, and a boss who makes examples of people in front of the whole desk. Then, one midnight in an empty stairwell, he meets a man who shouldn't be there. The man calls himself Gus. He talks like no one Caleb has ever met — unhurried, certain, a little dangerous — and he offers ...

He apologizes before he steals your years, murmuring "I'm sorry. I'll spend it well," and his victims wake older, with a gap in their memory shaped like a man they cannot quite recall.Guardian Meredith Trevelyn follows the trail to a market that trades outside time, where the thief's crime turns out to be the smallest wrong in the room. The reports keep coming. Hours gone. Decades gone. Families that no longer recognize their own. And when Meredith corners the courteous merchant, he drops an hourglass at her feet. Inside is a girl, sixteen, frozen mid-scream. She has been screaming for ...

How far must someone fall before they finally allow themselves to be heard? Mark is a quiet college student trapped between constant family conflict, crushing expectations and a growing belief that his voice does not matter. When his parents refuse permission for a college field trip, another painful argument pushes him beyond the safety of home and towards a lonely coastal hillside. There, beneath a darkening sky and beside a dangerous cliff, Mark meets Alex—an older stranger walking with his loyal dog, Mira. Alex carries a private tragedy of his own: the loss of his wife and children in...

Overnight, a citadel grew from the bones of seventeen thousand dead guardians, and it will not let a single living one pass until someone answers for eight hundred years of silence. The families of the fallen built it. They call themselves the abandoned, and their leader has issued one demand: accountability. Meredith Trevelyn's Council gives her a week before it votes for war. The rebellion gives her three days before the citadel walks. Meredith is done defending the system. She refuses to bring an army. She refuses to bring her failing mentor. She enters the bone galleries alone to hear ...

Across forty-three dimensions, things are quietly vanishing, and the voice calling them into the dark has learned it never needs to shout. Meredith Trevelyn, guardian of a sentient Cornish cottage, can hear it too: an invitation to come and be lost, whispered in the register of mercy, while the mentor who taught her everything is dying in the chair by the fire. The equinox is three days away. Every loss traces to the void between dimensions, where something vast and grieving believes that if everything is nothing, nothing more can be lost. To answer it, Meredith must cross a door made of ...

A harbor city keeps its weather on time—until the clocks begin to drift, the fog arrives too late, and one woman who knows every gear in the system realizes the whole district may be sliding toward collapse. The Tide Comes In is an atmospheric fantasy mystery set in the harbor city of Kalder, where Maren Voss has spent seventeen years maintaining the anchor clocks that regulate tide, mist, and pressure across the Tideward district. She is a master clockwright, a widow, and a woman who trusts procedure more than intuition—until subtle anomalies begin appearing in the harbor’s readings ...

Three weeks after Meredith Trevelyn lost the mentor she loved, she opened her cottage door and found him standing on the threshold, wearing the smile he kept for strangers, and she knew in one held breath that something patient and hungry had come to feed on her grief. It had studied his face for a year, and it never learned his laugh. The shadow has waited for mourning to weaken her. It wears the faces of everyone she has lost, and it wants the sentient Cornish cottage she is sworn to guard, the living threshold between worlds that only a Trevelyn can hold. If grief opens a single crack in...

When two strangers are broken open, on opposite ends of the country, by mentors who die before either apprenticeship is finished, what gets rebuilt in them turns out to reach further than either one ever believed possible.

Every river changes. Every teacher must eventually pass on what he knows. The Tails of Timmy the Trout, Volume II: The Master’s Final Drift is the illustrated young readers continuation of Timmy’s river adventure, written especially for thoughtful children ages 9–12. Timmy is no longer the small and inexperienced trout who once hid among the gravel. After surviving changing seasons, predators, fishermen, floods, and a difficult journey upstream, he returns to his familiar pool expecting to find Old Burt waiting beneath the submerged roots. But Old Burt is gone. For the first time, ...

"A heartwarming tale of redemption and forgiveness that is both emotional and emotionally charged." –IndieReader At 14, Shawn Stevens commits a horrible crime the day after his father's funeral. These two events define his life. After leaving juvenile detention, he starts life over but is haunted by his past, unable to forgive anybody, including himself. When Shawn becomes a mentor, he finally confronts what he's done, questioning everything. In a parallel story from the present, Shawn's 13-year-old son, Aidan, finds letters in the attic introducing him to the father he never met. Aidan ...

Those who enjoy Craig Silvey, Trent Dalton and Richard Flanagan's books will find much to think about here. 'We never talked about what happened in 1992. Did it quietly haunt him the way it did me?' In the small seaside town of Queenscliff, two boys from opposite sides of the world forge a...

My Mentor, Death is a collection of over 40 of Leslie D. Soule's best poems, meditating on modernity, loss, and more. With deft language and cutting wit, Soule's poetry illuminates the twisted landscape of the 21st century, creating a tableau of lost loves, depersonalization, and that specter that comes for all of us: death.