Characters are stuck together by circumstance, duty, travel, work, weather, magic, or worse.
A retired warlock, rogue, and witch try to turn a half-ruined inn into a hot-spring retreat. But the inn's old magic still expects sieges, guests want legends, and breakfast has rules. Warm, dryly funny cozy fantasy about trust, second chances, and ordinary care.Approx. 111,000 words.
Lucien Aldric has spent thirty years performing the role of the spare. Isabelle Vauclaire was arranged to marry his brother, then arranged to marry him instead. The European press calls it the consolation match. Neither of them has accounted for what happens when two people who are very good at not being seen finally have nowhere else to look.