Jennifer A. Wrenfield
Jennifer A. Wrenfield writes folklore-laced fantasy about hidden ecologies and the beings who safeguard them. Once a field ecologist, now a map archivist, she’s drawn to places that vanish from records: lost lakes, misprinted borders, forgotten commons, marsh paths. Her Elderfen trilogy follows keepers, trolls, and spirits as they fight to keep one nameless lake in balance against human pressure.
Books & What’s Next
Books
Out Now:
The Lake That Left the Map
Book 1 of the Keepers of Elderfen Trilogy
Elderfen Lake is vanishing—first from satellite images, then from hiking maps, and finally from the memories of those who’ve never stood on its shore. Each deletion feeds an ancient power under the water, and something in the surrounding forest disappears with it. Mossheart and Grimdor uncover a western clan’s plan to cash in an old sacrificial debt. With an 18-year-old nature geek as their only human ally, they must rewrite the original bargain before Elderfen leaves the world for good. (buy here)
Coming Soon:
The Stone That Learned to Listen
Book 2 of the Keepers of Elderfen Trilogy
Tagline: When every shattered rock erases a memory, even stone must learn to speak.
Beneath Elderfen lies a cathedral of living crystal, where every vein holds a memory of the forest above. When western trolls begin to mine the caverns—driven by thirst and failing springs—each shattered stone wipes a story from roots, rivers, even the keepers themselves. Stoneheart and Boulderthane descend with Runebringer, master of deep runes, to teach the stone how to carry memory without breaking. Above, Elias must gently turn his own kind away—before Elderfen endures, hollowed of its past, and easy to claim.
What’s Next
Jennifer is continuing the Keepers of Elderfen trilogy with a final volume that turns the conflict toward fire, prophecy, and the cost of “necessary” sacrifice—while keeping the heart of the series where it belongs: with the keepers and the living landscape. She’s also developing a companion project, The War That Never Was, where small voices push back against fate’s loudest demands.
Background
Before she wrote novels, Jennifer A. Wrenfield worked outdoors—surveying wetlands, cataloguing species, and tracking how small changes in water and soil ripple through an entire habitat. Later she moved into map and archive work, restoring old charts and boundary records. That mix—field grit and paper truth—shapes her Elderfen stories, where a place can disappear from maps long before it disappears in real life.