The Books

The Ever Song Chronicles  ·  Book 1

The Lightkeeper's Apprentice

A story about belonging — and the light you were given before you knew you needed it.

Avery has been training her whole life for this. She knows how to tune a lantern, knows the old songs, knows the history of the Lantern Towers — and she is ready for her first mission. What she isn't ready for is Brighthollow.

The town should be singing. But something has gone wrong — not with the tower's mechanics, not with anything Avery can fix with a wrench or a new lantern glass. Brighthollow is falling out of love. Neighbors move past each other without speaking. Doors close a little harder than they used to. Children sit alone in squares where laughter used to live.

Pops has a word for this. He calls it dissonance. Avery just calls it impossible to fix.

And into that quiet wondering, the Whisperer arrives — in a voice so soft it could almost be her own thoughts. Meanwhile, something stirs in the Darklands. In a village the light has never touched, a boy named Kale presses his hand against his chest and feels, for the first time in his life, warmth.

The Ever Song never stops. People just stop hearing it.