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Mara Ellison

Mara Ellison

Stories for the long way home.

A map with no edges. A house the tide forgot. A letter that arrives twenty years late.

I write about ordinary people at the edge of extraordinary worlds. Come in, find a story, and stay a little while.

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6 titles

The Elsewhere Cycle · Book One

The Atlas of Elsewhere

When an apprentice mapmaker inherits an atlas that redraws itself at midnight, she discovers a city missing from every map. Finding it means trusting the one person determined to erase it.

A lyrical fantasy about lost places, found families and the courage to take the unmarked road.

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The Elsewhere Cycle · Book Two

A Garden of Doors

Behind the last door in Elsewhere grows a garden of paths never taken. When its flowers begin to fade, Lena must decide which version of home she is willing to save.

The second adventure in the Elsewhere Cycle, full of secret gardens, impossible choices and unexpected friendships.

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The House at Low Tide

A retired lighthouse keeper leaves her niece a house, a key and a warning about the spring tide. Then a stranger arrives with a photograph that could change the village forever.

An atmospheric coastal mystery with a stubborn heroine, a very opinionated neighbor and a secret beneath the salt.

Saltwater Letters

While reopening her grandmother’s seaside café, June finds a bundle of letters addressed to a man who never came back. Delivering them brings an old summer, and an unexpected second chance, to her own door.

A warm romance about starting again, saying the thing you meant to say, and making room at the table.

A City Beneath the Stars

On a city built into the ring of a distant planet, an archivist receives a message sent by her future self. It contains three names, a departure time, and a request she cannot understand: leave the lights on.

Hopeful science fiction about memory, chosen family and the small things worth carrying into the dark.

The Last Orchard

Three estranged siblings return to the family orchard for one final harvest. Their father has left each of them a different version of the same story, and one tree that refuses to bear fruit.

A tender literary novel about inheritance, forgiveness and what we choose to grow next.

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