The Stonewater Ledger
West Point Chronicles Origins - Book Two
Every line in the ledger records someone who vanished. One of them may lead Nimbo to his sister.
Fourteen-year-old Nimbo Dee has left the ruins of Ashfield behind, but not his promise to find Talla. A merchant caravan offers food, safety, and the first real trail east. It also teaches him a harder truth: a good bow cannot solve every problem.
The trail leads to Stonewater, a city built on trade, tide, and secrets. To get close to the people who took Talla, Nimbo must learn roofs, locks, ledgers, false names, and the uneasy business of trusting thieves. Seren and her river crew can help him steal the records that expose a trade in human cargo. Their price is competence, and they will not risk their lives for a boy's hope.
When the ledger points beyond the city, Nimbo must choose between the shot he knows how to take and the rescue that might still be possible.
Kindle edition · ASIN B0HQ8CLPMT · Release date 7 December 2026
Excerpt
The sun had barely cleared the horizon, but the heat was already waiting, settled in the grass like an animal too lazy to move.
Nimbo sat in the lee of a crumbling milestone, counting arrows. Twelve in goose-grey, each tip filed sharp enough to shave with. He ran a thumb along the last one, feeling for a warp in the grain, then slotted it back into the quiver with a click that satisfied something small and exact inside him. The thirteenth was shorter than the rest, fletched with scraps of starling feather set earnest and slightly wrong. Talla's work.