There are nights in Roadstand Hollow when the streets grow quiet, the fog settles between the buildings, and every lantern seems to be keeping a secret.
Tonight, one of those secrets has been opened.
Book 5 of Tales of Roadstand Hollow, The Lantern Maker, is now published.
The second book in The Lantern Market Chronicles returns readers to a part of the Hollow where wishes are not always given freely—and where some people have discovered that nearly anything can be bought, sold, hidden, or traded after dark.
The market has returned.
But it has returned changed.
A lantern burns black. A merchant refuses to trade. A stranger arrives carrying no reflection. And somewhere beneath the familiar streets of Roadstand Hollow, bargains are being made that were never meant to be recorded.
As the midnight market reveals its darker corners, Elias, Miriam, and the people of the Hollow are drawn toward a trade that threatens far more than wishes. Old promises acquire new value. Forgotten choices return, demanding payment. And the lanterns themselves may know more than anyone realizes.
The Lantern Maker continues the larger mystery begun in The Lantern Market while carrying Roadstand Hollow deeper into the secrets of Series 2.
Like every Roadstand Hollow story, however, this remains a tale about people.
About the things we carry.
The promises we keep.
The memories we cannot quite surrender.
And the strange roads that sometimes appear when we need them most.
The Lantern Maker — Book 5 of Tales of Roadstand Hollow
Series 2: The Lantern Market Chronicles
Now published in Kindle, audiobook, paperback, and hardcover editions.
Five books now stand on the Roadstand Hollow shelf.
And there are still roads we haven't traveled.
Welcome back to the Hollow.
Some bargains are made with money.
Others cost considerably more.
— Ronald Hudkins
Tales of Roadstand Hollow
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