The hill was lying, and Neri had been told to agree with it.
In the drowned city of Sorvaine, the Guild of Mapmakers has a form for everything, including being sorry about the stairs. Twelve-year-old apprentice Neri Ossavane has one job: tick the box, write agreed, and never argue with the Approved Chart. Then her lead line comes up from the silt with something no map allows for: a brass lantern that shows what the water swallowed. Streets. Doors. Lamps still lit in windows the Guild swears were never there.
With a boy who puts a price on everything, a deaf bell-keeper who says everything in capital letters, and a cat who signs official documents, Neri sets out to find the lane the city refuses to name. Her mother, a licensed Sounder, vanished three winters ago while measuring. Somebody on the Chart is lying, and it may be everyone.
Whimsical, mysterious and sometimes dark, The Mapmaker's Lantern is a complete, standalone fantasy about maps, memory and the uncomfortable truths hidden beneath the surface of everything.