The Rune-Carver of the Thousand Hearth
A Cozy Progression FantasyBy Clio Tavares
Length7h 50m
About this audiobook
Mara carries her mistakes on her body: a missing fingertip, a silver web of scars across both forearms, a ring bleached around each iris by rune-burn. Exiled from the Thousand Hearth and spat out by a portal onto a backwater world called Aeloria, where even the water tastes wrong, she has walked for three days or four with little but the chisels in her apron pockets. Then, at the crest of a hill, she finds a place rune-carvers only hear of in guild halls and the margins of old journals: the Wayfarer's Rest, an inn that travels between worlds, a sanctuary for the displaced.
Its green door opens before she can knock. A small black cat with one gold eye and one blue, whose shadow moves in a direction the light doesn't allow, leads her inside. The fire in the common room could roast an ox, and every table is empty. The doors along the hallway are carved with runes older and softer than any she knows, as if they were grown rather than cut. They are warm under her fingertip, dormant and unfinished.
In the kitchen, a three-foot cook with skin like embers and a crest of flames for hair ladles her a bowl of stew. Pip, who is the cook and apparently also the everything, explains that the cat both is and isn't a cat. The one who carved the inn's runes is long gone. She didn't leave, exactly. She stopped. And now a rune-carver has walked in off the road.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length7 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
17The Mapmaker's Lesson
2The Rune That Broke the World
18Whisper's Truth
3A Sprite in the Kitchen
19The Rune of Home
4The Golem's Garden
20The Inn's Heart
5The Mapmaker's Arrival
21The First Guest
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6Whisper's Secret
22The Rune Carver's Apprentice
7The First Feast
23The Festival of Hearthglen
8The Rune of Growth
24The Rival's Return
9The Portal's Edge
25The Healing Rune
10The Rival's Shadow
26The New Rune
11The Defensive Network
27The Homecoming
12The Homecoming Rune
28The Family Grows
13A New World
29The Wayfarer's Rest
14The Library of Worlds
30About the author
15The Sunfruit Pie
31Series hook
16The Garden Between Worlds
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