Heart's Tale

The world's Heart is dying. Only five shards of it remain. When a wooden thief is cornered in a library tower, she hides one of those shards inside the most disposable thing she can find — a blank-faced puppet apprentice named Goody. He has no voice. No memory. No name. He has only just begun to suspect that he exists. Now a usurper hunts the shard from the back of a black dragon. Rebels in a hidden city sharpen weapons for an impossible war. And a small wooden creature in a clockmaker's bag is carrying the last pulse of a god — learning, far too quickly, what love, shame, and grief mean. A dark steampunk fairytale. Daily updates. --- ★ "Sweeping, elegant prose without turning purple, immersive descriptions without getting boring, unique character voices, subdued but endearing humour." — Dormouse Pie★ "A masterclass in convergence" — Weaver of Tales★ 4.81/5 from early readers · 110 chapters · Daily updates Complete. 138 chapters. Heart's Tale comes to Amazon (ebook + paperback) in October. Leave your email and I'll remind you when it's out: https://maxmaze.substack.com/subscribe