Journey · Book 03 · Sam age 12

The Town Off the Map

A blank on one map can be somebody else’s home

The Town Off the Map book art
Book 03 · Year 3 of the journey

The Town Off the Map

What actually happened?

Fresh tire tracks appear where Alder’s map shows nothing. Sam, Mara, and their growing team follow the road north and discover that a missing place is not the same thing as an empty place.

Sam’s progression

Sam stops treating Alder’s map as the default truth and begins comparing records from both sides of the road.

Reader map after Book 3

What the known network looks like now

Reader map after The Town Off the Map
Schematic · not to scaleMap grows book by book