In Darsith Hollow, words are dangerous. Children are taught to bite their tongues before their thoughts betray them — because everyone remembers what happens when spoken words take shape.

Rowen has kept his voice quiet his whole life. But one night, whispering to himself in secret, he says the words that change everything: I walk with the Light. I speak what is true. My word is my wand. The wind stops. The Whispering Wall opens. And a stranger arrives to tell him what he's always suspected — he is Wandborn.

What follows is a journey through the Map of the Mouth, the Market of Misused Words, and the fears that have shaped a boy into someone smaller than he was born to be — toward a truth every Wandborn must eventually face: the power was never in the wand. It was always in the word, spoken from a place of alignment rather than fear.

Inspired by the metaphysical teachings of Florence Scovel Shinn, The Whispering Wand is a fantasy for readers who've ever sensed that their words carry more weight than they've been told — and that the story they keep speaking about themselves might be the one thing standing between them and who they're meant to become.