The Cartographer's Lotus — The Lotus Covenant Saga, Book 1

Some maps reveal places. Others reveal destinies.

Elara Veyne trusts maps more than people — and with good reason. As the royal cartographer of a river-delta kingdom, she reads the water the way others read faces, and the water has never once lied to her.

But when a boundary stone shifts in the night and a covenant name begins to fade from a living lotus leaf, Elara uncovers something no map was meant to show: someone is erasing the ancient promises that hold the delta above the flood — and every name they take will drown a kingdom.

To stop it, she must share a barge with Caelan Maris, prince of the rival Reed Court, a man she was raised to distrust and never expected to need. As the floodwaters climb and a hooded scholar works to unwrite the delta name by name, two people who trust no one find themselves trusting each other — slowly, carefully, and completely.

Some boundaries were never meant to stay fixed.

Book 1 of The Lotus Covenant Saga.