A mute mapmaker in 18th-century Venice discovers his latest commission—a blank map—is erasing reality wherever it's drawn. He must race to finish the map before the world disappears.
The bells of San Giorgio tolled midday as Matteo Vellani traced the edge of a parchment
with a trembling quill. The mapshop was quiet, except for the soft scraping of pen
against paper and the occasional creak of the canal-side beams. Dust floated like ash in
shafts of amber light, and outside, gondoliers called to one another across water that
glittered with the weight of age
Published on 2025-10-30 by Jam eBooks
Categories: Fiction Historical