Tatter did not steal. He mended. The queen’s broken music box? He spent three nights rewiring its brass heart with a bent pin and a spider’s thread. The kitchen’s rat infestation? He spoke to the rats—actually spoke —and they relocated to the dungeons peaceably. The royal astrologer’s failing telescope? Tatter replaced a missing lens with a polished dewdrop frozen in time.
Queen Elara rules the Kingdom of Aethelgard, a land so peaceful that the army has been repurposed into a traveling choir. But Aethelgard has a problem: the nearby Goblin Wastes are stirring. The goblins are restless, and war looms on the horizon. The Queen Who Adopted a Goblin