Thresholds & Thievery: An Alderwick End Cozy Fantasy Mystery (The Ink & Kettle Club)

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She bought a vacant charm shop. The town’s finicky magic didn’t get the memo. Nellie Reeves came to Alderwick End for a fresh start and a quiet life. Acorn & Amber Oddities is exactly what she needs: a little shop on a cobbled lane, shelves full of half-sorted charms, a temperamental stove… there’s even a tiny mossbear named Mallow who moves in like he owns the place. Then strange things start happening. Sealed notes are appearing at the wrong doors, and parcels arrive for people who have been dead for years. The weirdest part? The magic is not broken. It’s remembering. And in the version of Alderwick End, it remembers, Nellie’s shop was never there. As the annual ritual approaches, Nellie realizes someone is waking the old magic on purpose. And if they succeed, the fragile home she’s only just begun to build could be written out of the village’s history forever. With the help of Mallow, a circle of sharp-eyed women with excellent tea, a courier who somehow has access to every piece of town gossip, and a quiet Charmwarden who keeps appearing under suspicious circumstances, Nellie must follow the clues before the final bell rings. Because in Alderwick End, magic always remembers. And someone is trying to make it remember wrong. Thresholds & Thievery is a cozy fantasy mystery full of magical shopkeeping, found family, gentle romance, warm tea, village secrets, and one very opinionated mossbear. It’s perfect for fans of The Spellshop and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries who want a slow, atmospheric magical mystery about memory, community, and finding where you belong.

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