The Cat Who Remembered Everything: A Cozy Fantasy Novella

Bramble has never explained where he came from. Wren Alder never asked. It's the one rule every Warden in her family has passed down for three hundred years: take him in, don't ask.Then a Guild archivist arrives in Hollowmere on what's supposed to be a routine inspection of the newly mended lantern, and finds something in three-hundred-year-old records that was never meant to be found: the name of a familiar who vanished on the night of the very first binding, and never came back.Bramble has started forgetting himself in small, frightening ways. A magistrate from the Guild's capital is on his way to reseal the lantern for good, with or without anyone's cooperation, in eleven days. And Wren is starting to understand that mending the crack in the lantern was never the hard part. The hard part is what happens when the thing you love most turns out to be older, and far more broken than you ever let yourself notice.An archivist who isn't sure which side she's supposed to be on. A magistrate who treats kindness as paperwork nobody's filed yet. And a cat who may be about to remember exactly who he was before he was anyone's, whether he wants to or not. Wren has eleven days to choose between the rules she was raised on and the family she's actually built.A quick, cozy read for anyone who wants their fantasy warm and their stakes real, with small towns that are just a little bit haunted.Perfect for fans of Travis Baldree, T. Kingfisher, and any story where the tea is always warm and the magic always costs something.The Cat Who Remembered Everything is Book Two of the Hollowmere Mendings, a novella-length cozy fantasy ( 20,700 words, roughly 1-2 hours of reading).