A fantasy series by Justin Meadows

The Halvenar Chronicles

Novels, games and the news of a river city, all set in one original world where every kind of magic costs something.

The world in one breath

Ten thousand years ago, seventy-three refugees found heaven, and shut the door behind them on everyone they could not save. Now the door is knocking.

Three ways in

Read it, play it, walk its streets

Book one

The Wildheart

An elf the testing stone found nothing in, and the thing that came down from the forest.

About the book →

iPhone & iPad

The Games

A dark gamebook under a ruined shrine, and a cozy mystery in a ruined assay house.

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Printed weekly

The Chronicle

Letters, songs and street news from Rivercross, printed above a paper shop.

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Posted on the Carried Board

News from the Paper Stair

Every weekend

The Frostfair

From Friday to Monday the Frostfair comes to Assay House. Fill frost orders, collect 30 tokens and take home a Winter bell.

November 2026

Assay House in testing

The shop is open to testers, with eleven Game Center achievements and an Orders Filled leaderboard. The App Store comes next.

Every week

A new Chronicle

In The Hollow Bell, a fresh issue of the Rivercross Chronicle unlocks each week you play. Six are free to read here.

Coming soon

The Wildheart

Book one is in its final revision. The Lamp Row Letter hears the release date first.

Dagna Coldhammer, Assay-Master of Rivercross

News by letter

The Lamp Row Letter

On Lamp Row, when someone hasn’t come home, they leave a lamp dark and lay one more bowl. This is the letter for the people who keep a bowl out for the next book.

Your email app should open with the request ready. Press Send to join. If it didn’t open, write to [email protected] with the subject “Lamp Row Letter”.

About one letter a month. What’s in it