Canticle of Stillness: Book One of the Stillwater Hymnal

In the river country of Westvale, stillness is a way of life. Sixteen-year-old Caelen Marrowell has spent years within the cloisters of the Abbey of Saint Solenne, where ritual, silence, and service have shaped him into someone who moves gently through the world. The Abbey has been his refuge, a place where bells, ledgers, and orchard paths at sunrise make sense in ways his noble birth never has.

But quiet places are not immune to change. Small disturbances begin to ripple through Caelen’s d...