Some places disappear from maps. In Ilyen Vey's district, they are starting to disappear from reality.

Ilyen is a provincial Keeper of Names, trained to trust records, forms and the ancient procedures that keep settlements, roads and boundaries fixed. When she is sent to a remote forest district, the failures look administrative: villages vanish from tax rolls, road lengths contradict the map, graves no longer match families, and people lose rights because their homes no longer officially exist.

Then the forest edge begins to move.

Forced to work with Orren Cald, a former boundary warden who trusts lived ground more than central archives, Ilyen must test records against stones, burial inscriptions, local memory and dangerous journeys through shifting geography. As names weaken, neighbours forget one another and familiar roads stop leading where they should.

To save the district, Ilyen must discover what was erased before the place can no longer remember what it is.

The Nameless Wood opens The Hollow Crown Trilogy: atmospheric adult dark fantasy horror where bureaucracy is magic?and bad records can unmake the world.

Published by Hale & Chase