The Last Loaf at Hollow Bend

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She traded her sword for a rolling pin. The town wasn't sure what to make of that. After twenty years as a mercenary, Brynn Ashgrove is done with battles. She wants flour, a working oven, and a village that doesn't know what she used to be. What she gets is Hollow Bend - a community of retired warriors, nervous scribes, grudging fishmongers, and one very opinionated battle-mage who has claimed the chair by the window and refuses to move it. The bakery she buys comes with more than she bargained for: a locked cabinet that won't open, a brass key that doesn't fit it, and fifteen years of letters tied with a faded green ribbon - all left behind by a woman the town loved and never quite understood. Brynn didn't come to Hollow Bend to solve a mystery. She came to bake bread. But some things - like dough, like people, like old letters kept for reasons nobody ever explained - have a way of rising on their own. The Last Loaf at Hollow Bend is a cozy fantasy novella about starting over, found family, and the quiet courage it takes to build something worth staying for. Perfect for readers who loved Legends & Lattes and The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy - warm magic, low stakes, and a community that earns its place in your heart one chapter at a time. Includes seven original recipes - bread, honey spice cakes, oat cookies, shortbread, and more - woven into the story and ready to bake at home.

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