The setting
One town. Two banks. A bridge holding them close enough to collide.
The Sanguine River
The river is a boundary, a route, and the first fact everyone learns about town. On one bank stand the university and the institutions that draw the maps. On the other are the addresses that appear inside them.
West Bank
Crown Heights rises above the river in stone, brick, columns and endowments. Amesbury University has shaped the town for generations—and has plans for what comes next.
East Bank
The Flats holds studios, storefronts, family businesses and buildings that have outlived every plan drawn around them. This is where an expansion announcement stops being policy and becomes an address.
Blackwood Bridge
People cross for work, for family, for love, and for meetings where the future has already been printed. In Both Sides of the River, every route eventually reaches the bridge.
Begin with Book OneA town with more stories
Arden's Reach will grow here as the series grows—without asking new readers to cross into spoilers.