Off the Map
An ADHD sky-courier who files reports no one reads. He's sent to confirm a ghost island doesn't exist. Stranded three days, she maps the truth in charcoal and he falls for the way her mind moves.
Floating islands. Bioluminescent sailors. Brains that see what no one else can.
“Charts for a world that reads differently.”
Steamy romantasy where neurodivergence isn't a subplot — it's the reason they solve the mystery. ADHD, autism, dyscalculia, alexithymia, rendered with lived specificity.
An ADHD sky-courier who files reports no one reads. He's sent to confirm a ghost island doesn't exist. Stranded three days, she maps the truth in charcoal and he falls for the way her mind moves.
She maps invisible patterns. He navigates by sound. An autistic cartographer's star-charts reveal someone is silencing the anchor stars that hold the Isles together.
Halwen reads buildings by touch — and hides the dyscalculia that makes every filed report an act of survival. Then the Guild sends her to a dying island tunneling toward something it doesn't know is there.
A Tideborn captain who feels every emotion at full intensity and can name none. A tactile-seeking autistic mason who reads people by how they hold a cup. Four days at sea, three weeks on an island still sending signal.