The Shifting Hearth Bakery

Aspen Frey died saving her world. She expected an eternity of rest. Instead, she got a job at a bakery. Welcome to The Shifting Hearth, a cozy sanctuary at the crossroads of the afterlife where the floors shift with your emotions and the cinnamon logs are alive. For the first time, the former vanguard commander doesn't have a war to win. But when Aspen uncovers a hidden Ministry blueprint, she realizes the bakery isn't just a kitchen-it's a literal vault lock holding back the apocalypse, and the emotional healing of her quirky new found family forms the combination tumblers. When a button-eyed horror from her past crawls out of the pantry stitched into a plush toy, Aspen must face the battle to click the final tumbler into place before the vault blows wide open...

Pages: 148, Hardcover, Notion Press