Tides & Drift – A moving return to the world of Fable (Paperback)

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Tides & Drift returns to the salt-stung world of Fable through two quieter, character-led stories that deepen what came before. These are tales shaped by chance meetings, uneasy alliances, and the slow pull of the sea.

In Tides, Auster is sent to rob a deckhand named Paj, an errand that upends everything he thinks he knows about loyalty and power. Their connection unfolds with tenderness and restraint, tracing first love alongside the difficult work of choosing who you want to become. It is a story that sits in the spaces before legend, where freedom is still uncertain and easily lost.

Drift follows Willa after she leaves the Marigold behind. On a remote island at the edge of the Narrows, she builds something new with Koy, a partnership founded on necessity and growing trust. As they imagine a future beyond familiar waters, the past lingers like a tide that never fully recedes.

In Tides & Drift, Adrienne Young writes with softness and clarity about beginnings, departures, and the lives shaped between them.