The Last Cartomancer
by Isolde Marrow · Ongoing · 15 chapters · ★ 4.5 (58 ratings)
Talia Vess can read a landscape the way other people read a face — every fold of a map she draws carries a truth deeper than ink. That gift got her exiled. Three years ago, a map she charted led a merchant caravan into the massacre at Windhollow Pass, and though she has never believed her lines were wrong, no one in the kingdom of Aveline will hear her say so. Now the Withering Plague is eating through Aveline's coastline, and the only cure grows in the Shattered Reach — a stretch of land so thick with old, broken magic that compasses lie, rivers run uphill, and the ground itself sometimes forgets what it is. Lady Ishara Kell offers Talia a pardon in exchange for one map: a route through the Reach and back. To get it, Talia needs a guide who can keep her alive long enough to draw it. Enter Ronan Blackwood, mercenary captain, professionally unsentimental, and the last man in Aveline who should trust a disgraced cartomancer — except he has his own reasons for wanting into the Reach, and his own doubts about the woman who hired them both. As the expedition pushes deeper into a land that punishes mistakes with something worse than death, Talia and Ronan will have to decide how much of each other's history they're willing to risk believing. The truth about Windhollow Pass is still out there. So is the truth about who wants Talia to never come back.
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★★★★★ Dana · 1 month ago
Every chapter ends on a hook. I'm obsessed.
★★★★★ Alex · 1 month ago
Reread the last three chapters twice already.
★★★★★ Hannah · 1 month ago
Stayed up way too late finishing this.
★★★★☆ Julia · 1 month ago
Great characters, wish the chapters were a bit longer.
★★★★★ Sana · 1 month ago
This deserves way more attention than it's getting.
★★★★☆ Emma · 1 month ago
Really enjoying this so far, hoping updates keep coming.
★★★★☆ Opal · 1 month ago
Really enjoying this so far, hoping updates keep coming.
★★★★☆ Layla · 1 month ago
Great characters, wish the chapters were a bit longer.
★★★★★ Sophie · 1 month ago
Reread the last three chapters twice already.
★★★★★ Anna · 1 month ago
The chemistry between the leads is off the charts.
★★★★★ Riya · 1 month ago
The chemistry between the leads is off the charts.
★★★★☆ Sasha · 1 month ago
Great characters, wish the chapters were a bit longer.
★★★★★ Mason · 1 month ago
The chemistry between the leads is off the charts.
★★★★★ Nina · 1 month ago
The chemistry between the leads is off the charts.
★★★★☆ Chloe · 1 month ago
Great characters, wish the chapters were a bit longer.
★★★★☆ Chris · 1 month ago
Hooked after chapter 2. Can't wait for more.
★★★★★ Rosa · 1 month ago
This deserves way more attention than it's getting.
★★★★★ Finn · 1 month ago
Could not put this down. Read it in one sitting.
★★★☆☆ Ethan · 1 month ago
Solid so far, curious where it's headed.
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"The Last Cartomancer" currently has 15 published chapters and is ongoing, with new chapters added regularly.
"The Last Cartomancer" is written by Isolde Marrow, published exclusively on Noveltide.