Phoenix Pencil Company (2025)

A pencil factory gives a family's hidden magic a material history: tools made for ordinary writing can also carry memories that other people want to possess. King moves between a granddaughter's search and her grandmother's working life, bringing production, inherited knowledge and political coercion together. Choose this for historical fantasy with an intimate interest in how an object is made and what it preserves. Its wartime espionage and family losses make it more demanding than a gentle shop story.