The Roads We Borrow
Claudia Phelps · Maritime fantasy with living roads and a hard moral reckoning
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About this book
Jesse wins the sailing trial, leaving island communities with a longer road home—because every magical shortcut shifts the burden elsewhere.
At an island school, gifted apprentice Jesse Martin learns that shortening one route lengthens another, then secretly shifts the distance from a prestigious sailing trial onto a public ferry passage. His win leaves remote communities hungry and gives a calculating rival a blueprint for drawing travel towards the powerful. To set matters right, Jesse must sail every altered passage, recover the roads’ changing true names and endure the distance his spell made others carry—even though restoring the archipelago will cost him the future he cheated to win.
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- Claudia Phelps
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- 58,067 words
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- English
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