The Dandelion & The Thistle

Maker’s Market Book One

Welcome to the Makers Market, your stop for high-quality, local, handcrafted art. Meet the artists as you browse. You never know what you’ll find.

Addison Baird has been a staple figure at the Makers Market. Known as the (un)official mayor of the market, he’s who everyone goes to when they have a problem, but when he experiences a disaster of his own, who does he turn to?

Colin Jameson is new to the Makers Market this year and has aspirations to take his ceramic art to a new level, but he’s dealing with a creative block. When a frazzled vendor comes up to his booth with a problem he is uniquely qualified to solve, Colin wonders if he’s finally found his muse.

Throughout the summer, Colin and Addison grow closer as they navigate the art world and face the pasts that haunt them. Will their budding relationship be uprooted or will they find healing and truly begin to blossom?

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Audiobook Status: In Production


Content Warnings:

  • MC with Anxiety
  • MC with PTSD
  • panic attacks (on-page)
  • abusive relationship (recounted)
  • religious trauma (recounted)
  • transphobia (recounted)
  • death of a parental figure (off-page)
  • sexual trauma (recounted)
  • social alcohol use (on-page)
  • anger issues (recounted and on-page)
  • abusive family (physical, emotional, verbal, neglect) (recounted)
  • homophobia (recounted)
  • racism (implied) (recounted)
  • child abandonment (recounted)
  • wind/storm (on-page)
  • bullying (on-page)
  • abandonment (felt) (on-page)
  • verbal abuse (recounted)
  • cut/bleeding (not intentional) (on-page)

Credits:

  • Book Cover Illustrator: Lea Charbonnier
  • Editor: Charlie Knight
  • Audiobook Narrator: Anthony Foxwell
  • Layout: Pip Dolyn
  • End Pages: Pip Dolyn
  • Illustrations: Pip Dolyn