Title: Thorns of the Dawnbound Vale
Genre: Epic Fantasy • Romantic Fantasy

Retail Description:
At the edge of a thorn-choked forest stands a dawnlit city built on vows and old stone. When a forbidden path stirs beneath the roots, a mapmaker with a gift for finding what should stay hidden is sent to trace it. Every line drawn awakens something sleeping under the vale—echoes of power, memories caught in briars, and a choice that will decide who the city serves: the people who walk its streets or the oaths forged long ago.
Guided by a silent code and shadowed by watchful eyes, the mapmaker follows clues through temples that hold the first light of morning, gardens where secrets take shape, and halls where the truth is kept behind polished doors. Duty sharpens into longing, trust into risk, and the path winds toward a threshold no one has crossed in generations.
To open the way is to invite change. To turn back is to let the thorns tighten. The dawn will come—whether the city is ready or not. Thorns of the Dawnbound Vale is an atmospheric fantasy of slow-burn tension, luminous worldbuilding, and a love strong enough to challenge the vows that built a world.