The Lantern Houses: A Novel of Quilts, Secrets, and Second Chances (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197386342)

When Rosie Mercer returns to the eastern mountains after her sister Ellie's death, she expects grief, unfinished business, and a storage unit full of quilting supplies.

She does not expect hidden relay rooms, coded quilt patterns, or a network of isolated mountain safe houses connected by lantern signals and generations of quiet care.

The Lantern Houses were built long ago to guide travelers through storms, protect vulnerable communities, and ensure no one vanished alone in the mountains. But after years of fear, loss, and division fractured the network apart, many of the routes-and the people maintaining them-stopped trusting one another.

Ellie believed the houses could reconnect.

Now Rosie finds herself pulled into the fragile continuity her sister died trying to preserve.

As old routes awaken and tensions rise between those fighting to reopen the network and those determined to keep it closed, Rosie must decide whether connection is still worth the risk of being hurt again.

Warm, hopeful, and deeply human, The Lantern Houses is a novel about grief, community, hidden histories, and the ordinary people who keep lights burning for one another through difficult seasons.

Perfect for readers who love:

• cozy literary fantasy
• found family stories
• emotional healing fiction
• atmospheric mountain settings
• quilting, crafting, and community-centered stories
• hopeful speculative fiction

Because sometimes survival begins with someone leaving a light on.