The Cartographer's Daughter

A map can show you where the world ends.It can also start a war.When the daughter of a celebrated royal cartographer inherits her father's unfinished atlas, she expects to spend her days correcting coastlines, measuring mountains, and staying safely out of political affairs. Instead, she discovers that several of her father's maps contain secrets that powerful men would kill to possess.A misplaced island. A disputed border. A mysterious passage marked where no passage should exist.Her attempt to correct one small mistake sends a beautifully drawn map into the hands of rival kingdoms—and suddenly everyone believes the parchment proves that a piece of the world belongs to them.As armies mobilize, merchants panic, spies appear at her doorstep, and three ambitious rulers prepare to defend territories they barely understand, the cartographer's daughter realizes the horrifying truth: she may be the most dangerous person in the room precisely because she knows where everything is.Forced to travel from royal archives to storm-battered ports and secret mapmaking workshops, she must uncover who altered the original charts, why her father concealed the truth, and whether the wars now gathering across the continent were truly accidents.Because once a map changes the world, correcting it may require changing the world back.And preferably before anyone starts firing cannons.