The Bound Daughter: Of Blood and Memory (Daughters of the Hidden Realms) - Softcover

Garver, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798234191199

Publisher: Wistful Wanderer Press, 2026

Synopsis

What if myths are just fragmented history?

Evie Rivers stopped believing in her father’s stories a long time ago.

The maps. The journals. The legends he chased across continents while the rest of his life fell apart.

Then he dies and leaves all of it to her.

Buried among his belongings is a trail decades in the making: strange markings across ancient maps, references to forgotten bloodlines, and the same impossible stories appearing again and again. Stories of gods. Hidden realms. Women whose names survived only as monsters and myths.

Evie intends to pack it all away.

Then the dreams begin.

A voice calling from somewhere beneath the earth.
A warning she doesn’t understand.

Blood binds.
Blood opens.

And a trail leading straight to London.

There, Evie stumbles into a hidden world existing just beneath the ordinary one—a sanctuary filled with people who shouldn’t be possible, a journalist asking questions of his own, and two factions fighting over a secret buried for centuries.

Both believe Evie’s blood can unlock it.

Neither intends to let her walk away.

Because her father wasn’t chasing folklore.

He was documenting history.

And somewhere beneath a mountain in Wales, something ancient is beginning to wake.

The Bound Daughter: Of Blood and Memory is a mythic urban fantasy steeped in ancient mythology and folklore, blending supernatural mystery, forgotten gods, found family, dangerous secrets, and slow-burn chemistry in a story about the women history turned into legends—and what happens when those legends begin to remember.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wistful Wanderer Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798234191199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 418