One old road. A lamp in every window. No one turned away.
Six houses along one road, and a keeper waiting up in each. Pick a window and go in.
Mirelight
Eases grief · Keeper: Oda
In the mist at a river-crossing, an old ferrywoman who has buried her own sits the long night with the grieving, a light burning in a horn lantern for anyone lost in the fog.
Come in
The Kettle on the Col
Eases burnout · Keeper: Toll
On the highest, hardest pass on the road, a young man who once burned out on the climb keeps the last house before the col: bread, soup, a bed, and a copper kettle on its hook in the south window, filled every morning.
Come in
Tideholt
Eases displacement · Keeper: Saba
On a windswept coast, the last house before the sea, a keeper who was once displaced herself makes a home for those who have none to return to.
Come in
The Mended Sign
Eases failure · Keeper: Pell
Deep in the forest, an old maker who failed at his life's great work mends broken things beside people who feel broken, and lets the gold in the seams catch the light.
Come in
The Long Table
Eases loneliness · Keeper: Wren
On the open moor at a crossroads, a warm, quick keeper lays a table always set, so that no traveller on the road ever has to eat alone.
Come in
The Turning
Eases fear of change · Keeper: Hollis
On a hill orchard where the seasons turn first, a keeper who tends fruit and time helps those afraid of what's coming learn to trust the turning.
Come inThe Light in Every Window
At the end of the road
One volume, after all six houses: a single hard season when every house on the road is needed at once. It comes last, once every house has opened. Start at any door before you get here.
Come inWhat you’ll find on this road
Somewhere warm to sit down
Soft magic
The magic is ordinary care, freely given, and a light always kept in the window.
Gentle stakes
No dark lords and no last battles. Quiet sadness is allowed; cruelty isn't.
Every book ends warm
Whatever a traveller carries in, the light is always kept.
Start at any door
Each house is its own trilogy with a prequel, and each stands alone.
Not sure where to begin?
What are you carrying?
Each house eases a different weariness. Pick the one that sounds like yours.
Every kept light was lit by someone, once.The First Kettle
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