Chaos doesn't announce itself. It moves into the spaces left by neglect: the abandoned shrine, the community that stopped gathering, the village that forgot how to tend to its magic.When a traveling storyteller and his snarky drake companion return to Elderglen, he finds the village dying and Chaos at its roots. After hundreds of years of wandering, he's fought this battle more times than he can count.But this village is special to him.A burned-out healer, a child discovering that the way her mind works is a gift, not a flaw, another who is a wild storm. Friends he's made through his travels. Chosen family.What he doesn't know is that this attack is not random. Something is directing it.Rich, warm, and quietly devastating, The Patchwork Storyteller is the first book of The Asha Chronicles-bright epic fantasy that pits connection and wonder against the rising tide of Chaos.
